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One year after New Jersey became the second state to offer paid family leave, the sky hasn’t fallen and businesses haven’t fled the state. Instead, the clear benefits are piling up: 26,000 workers were able to care for a new baby or a serious personal or family illness without going broke or losing their jobs. [...]

Via Washington Policy Watch Whether we’re in a recession or economic boom, almost all employees have family obligations. From planning the birth of a new baby, to taking care of an elderly parent,  to dealing with long term medical emergencies, time away from work is sometimes required to care for yourself or your family. There’s [...]

Via Washington Policy Watch: Public News Service notes the irony: Over the weekend, working moms might have been treated to cards, flowers and even breakfast in bed. But today, life is back to normal – and for Washington women, that means earning less per hour on the job and receiving fewer workplace benefits than men. [...]

Via Washington Policy Watch: When citizen delegates from Washington State converged in Washington DC to urge their representatives to take action on paid family leave and paid sick days, Selena Allen of Tacoma (whose story EOI has profiled before), and EOI Policy Director Marilyn Watkins were interviewed by NPR reporter Jennifer Ludden: For millions of [...]

The breadth of our movement was on display in Washington, DC April 26-27 as Family Values @ Work and the National Partnership for Women & Families co-sponsored “Making It Work,” a conference and day of action on paid sick days and paid family leave. More than 200 activists, researchers, funders, and policymakers gathered to strategize [...]

By ELLEN BRAVO We’ve been bombarded with ads promising the perfect gift for Mom, from chocolates and flowers to iPhones. Here’s my list of what mothers want: The right to care for a sick child or personal illness without losing her job or creating a public health hazard. I start with paid sick days as [...]

Check out this new policy resource from Family Values @ Work: Our Economy Needs Family Values at Work Now More Than Ever. It’s a great resource to use with policy makers and business owners because it gives the facts on how not having paid sick days and family leave insurance policies negatively affects our economy, [...]

A recent study (Seattle Times report) from the Journal of Pediatrics finds that the lives of nearly 900 infants – and billions of dollars in health care costs – could be saved if 90% of U.S. women breastfed their babies for the first 6 months of their life. Government guidelines recommend babies receive only breast [...]

Supporters of the work of Family Values @ Work will be interested to read this review of the research on the importance of family leave for the parents of newborns. To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the state paid family leave program in California, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation recently released a report called [...]

You can now follow the New York paid sick days and family leave insurance campaigns on Facebook and Twitter. Check the campaigns out at: Time to Care NY on Twitter New Yorkers Deserve Paid Sick Days on Facebook