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Family Leave Research Paper

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California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island are the only three states in the United States that guarantees at least four weeks of family leave at partial income. Since most states don’t guarantee this commodity, public programs have started popping up to help pay workers whose employers don’t offer paid family leave. Denver; Franklin, Ohio; Madison, Wis.; Hawaii; Indiana; and Pennsylvania have been granted $1.1 million by the U.S. Department of Labor to research the expenses of starting their own paid family leave programs. Family leave is a controversial issue that the U.S. is far behind the world in. At the moment, the U.S. grants all new parents 12 weeks off and Democrats believe that all workers should be paid during those 12 weeks. Republicans

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