Paid Family Leave
Today, 83 percent of workers don’t have access to a defined paid parental or caregiving leave benefit, and 61 percent don’t have access to medical leave. Without paid family leave, many Americans struggle to take time off to bond with a new child, care for a sick child or elderly relative, or confront a personal medical illness as they cannot afford to take unpaid leave. Paid family leave can provide support for families, especially for low-wage workers, and help boost economic productivity. BPC is working with our Paid Family Leave Task Force members – Senators Chris Dodd and Rick Santorum and Secretary Maria Contreras-Sweet – to enact a national paid family leave program.
Percent of workers don’t have access to a defined paid family leave policy , and 61 percent don’t have access to medical leave
The Sandwich Generation's Financial Strain: How Caregivers Balance Family and Finances
- July 18, 2019
Task Force on Paid Family Leave
One in four new mothers returns to work within two weeks of giving birth.
Adrienne Schweer: Make Paid Family Leave a Priority
of American children live in households where both parents work
Americans Want Paid Family Leave. Congress May Finally Be Ready to Deal
Any national plan is going to have to answer some essential questions: Who will be covered, what will the benefit be, how will the program be structured, and how to pay for it? But on some of these, common ground already exists. It’s time for collaboration and compromise to fill in the gaps.![]()
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Our Work
BPC’s paid family leave effort is committed to developing a policy roadmap for bipartisan, common-sense solutions that support America’s working families and promote America’s economic success. Americans overwhelmingly support the idea of paid family leave, whether to care for a new child, one’s own illness, or a sick family member. Republicans and Democrats have come a long way toward finding agreement on this issue, but Congress has yet to turn that growing consensus into actionable, bipartisan policy. BPC’s Task Force on Paid Family Leave seeks to take that next step.
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