Persuasive Speech Outline
INTRODUCTION
ATTENTION GETTER:
THESIS: American families will benefit from Family Security Insurance.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: If your like me, you're getting a college degree to not only provide your self with an income, but also to take care your family members in their times of need.
STATEMENT OF CREDIBILITY: I have found through researching work and family in the United State's, that we as a country are doing a poor job supporting parents, and I have found a policy that I believe would help.
PREVIEW OF MAIN POINTS: First, we'll examine why working families need a better safety net today than working families have in the past, second, we'll take a look at how current laws are not doing enough to protect families from hardship in the …show more content…
Williams writes in her 2010 book "Reshaping the Work Family Debate" that many single mothers are one sick child away from being fired. 2. Elizabeth Warren points out that now, more children will live through their parents bankruptcy than their parents divorce.
TRANSITION: Now that I have shown you that working families need a better safety net, let me tell why today's workplaces is placing families in a precarious position. II. Working families are going to workplaces where the current laws don't do enough, and rules still represent the outdated society of the 1960s. A. The current law, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) doesn't go far enough. 1. Under the current Family and Medical Leave Act, parents are only offered legal protection from getting fired for taking a leave of absence to care for newborn or sick family members. 2. According to a 2010 report from Georgetown University Law Center and the University of California Berkeley, the FMLA protections reach only half the workforce because it excludes small businesses. 3. The FMLA provides protection for workers to take only unpaid leave, which many workers cannot
ATTENTION GETTER:
THESIS: American families will benefit from Family Security Insurance.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: If your like me, you're getting a college degree to not only provide your self with an income, but also to take care your family members in their times of need.
STATEMENT OF CREDIBILITY: I have found through researching work and family in the United State's, that we as a country are doing a poor job supporting parents, and I have found a policy that I believe would help.
PREVIEW OF MAIN POINTS: First, we'll examine why working families need a better safety net today than working families have in the past, second, we'll take a look at how current laws are not doing enough to protect families from hardship in the …show more content…
Williams writes in her 2010 book "Reshaping the Work Family Debate" that many single mothers are one sick child away from being fired. 2. Elizabeth Warren points out that now, more children will live through their parents bankruptcy than their parents divorce.
TRANSITION: Now that I have shown you that working families need a better safety net, let me tell why today's workplaces is placing families in a precarious position. II. Working families are going to workplaces where the current laws don't do enough, and rules still represent the outdated society of the 1960s. A. The current law, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) doesn't go far enough. 1. Under the current Family and Medical Leave Act, parents are only offered legal protection from getting fired for taking a leave of absence to care for newborn or sick family members. 2. According to a 2010 report from Georgetown University Law Center and the University of California Berkeley, the FMLA protections reach only half the workforce because it excludes small businesses. 3. The FMLA provides protection for workers to take only unpaid leave, which many workers cannot