Tiffany Pelkey: Vermont working families need more support

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Tiffany Pelkey of Fairfax, who works at the University of Vermont. The views are her own.
I had my first son nine years ago. I planned on using all of the paid time off I accrued at work (about two weeks) plus another two weeks unpaid after his birth. We were a young couple and no matter how much we saved between the two of us, we couldn’t afford to take any more time than that.
We didn’t expect that our son would be born with a really sever