Episode 12

Post cross-over, what is happening with Paid Family Medical Leave

"For the storms in our own lives we'll have this public system in place that we've funded together so we're ready for that [storm]," - Emilie Kornheiser

March 24, 2023 (prerecorded 3/20): Today, we circle back to H.66, the Paid Family and Medical Insurance bill.

If passed, the insurance program would provide people with up to 12 weeks of leave to care for themselves or family members. Emilie fills us in on where the bill is in the legislative process. 

To read H.66: https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2024/H.66

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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The Montpelier Happy Hour
A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.