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On Mother’s Day, How Paid Sick Leave Would Help Single Moms

May 13, 2012

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Think Progress, May 13, 2012 by Sarah Jane Glynn Today is Mother’s Day, the day reserved for children and fathers to lavish the moms in their lives with praise and attention. The news is, of course, full of beautiful and heartrending odes to mothers. Yet there is one group of moms that are not usually […]

U.S. behind the world on parental leave: report

February 23, 2011

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Reuters, February 23, 2011 The United States is decades behind the rest of the world in parental leave policy, a Human Rights Watch report said on Wednesday. Of the 190 countries studied in the report, 178 guaranteed paid leave for new mothers and nine were unclear about their maternity policies. Just three countries clearly offer […]