Paid Leave
Survey: Americans want paid family leave, and they support social programs for families – Deseret News

Best Mother’s Day gift: paid maternity leave – Miami Herald Magazine

When Yalimar Panell gave birth to twin daughters, she felt sore from her Cesarean section, exhausted from running back and forth to the neonatal unit, and oddly grateful that her husband was unemployed and able to help. Yet, if it wasn’t for her employer offering 16 weeks of paid parental leave, Panell says she would have been less grateful and more frantic about the financial stress on her family.

Survey: Americans want paid family leave, and they support social programs for families – Deseret News

How the Tech Industry’s Women Problem Is Advancing Paid Family Leave – Bloomberg

Last week, Twitter became the latest tech company to announce an expanded parental leave policy, offering all new parents 20 weeks of paid time off. The tech industry seems to be leading the way among industries offering robust family leave—something most Americans don’t have access to—and it may be thanks to a counterintuitive factor: The industry’s notable lack of women.

Survey: Americans want paid family leave, and they support social programs for families – Deseret News

14 Things You Should Know About Paid Leave in the U.S. – Cosmopolitan

At some point in your career, you will probably need to take time off from your job to care for yourself or a family member, or to welcome a tiny new human into your life. But because the federal government doesn’t require your workplace to offer paid family leave, it’s possible that you will have to choose between earning money and looking after a loved one – the latter which, yes, is pretty darn hard to do without an income.