When 85-year-old Marie-Thérèse Ross crossed the Atlantic Ocean to be with the man she loved, she could never have imagined that months later she would be sleeping in a dormitory with 58 other women, listening to babies cry through the night in a Louisiana detention facility.
Governor Abigail Spanberger signed legislation establishing Virginia's new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program, making the commonwealth one of the latest states to guarantee workers paid time off during some of life's most demanding moments.