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  • Explaining the positive relationship between state-level paid family leave and mental health
    As of April 2021, nine states and the District of Columbia had enacted state-specific paid family leave (PFL) programs, offering partial wage replacement to parents after the birth of a child. The Biden Administration also proposed the development of a national solution through the American Families Plan. Despite these advances, concerns with workforce disruptions and economic costs have hindered…
    November 2022
    Mental/Behavioral Health, Paid Family Leave
  • Higher COVID-19 vaccination and narrower disparities in U.S. cities with paid sick leave compared to those without
    Paid sick leave provides workers with paid time off to receive COVID-19 vaccines and to recover from potential vaccine adverse effects. We hypothesized that US cities with paid sick leave would have higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities than those without such policies. Using county-level vaccination data and paid sick leave data from thirty-seven large US cities…
    November 2022
    Vaccine Access and Uptake, Paid Family Leave
  • The urgent necessity for paid parental leave
    The fight to provide U.S. parents with paid leave, now more than 100 years old, has stalled yet again. Despite widespread public support and strong evidence of its mental and physical health benefits, the United States remains one of just six countries worldwide that do not offer paid parental leave. (author introduction)
    April 2022
    Paid Family Leave
  • Paid family leave on local television news in the United States: Setting the agenda for policy reform
    Access to paid family and medical leave (“paid leave”) has bipartisan support among lawmakers in the United States, but the issue remains stalled on the public policy agenda. The U.S. does not currently have a federal paid leave policy, and unpaid leave—guaranteed by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993—is all that is available to the majority of workers. In this study, we examine the content…
    June 2021
    Paid Family Leave
  • An opportunity to promote health equity: National paid family and medical leave
    The United States is the only developed nation that fails to guarantee any kind of paid leave to workers. We lack a national paid family and medical leave (PFML) policy that encompasses: (1) paid parental leave, which would apply to both mothers and fathers after the birth of a child, adoption of a child, or fostering a child; (2) paid family leave (PFL), which would apply to caregivers of a…
    September 2020
    Maternal/Child Health, Paid Family Leave
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