Because of laws passed in recent years, Papua New Guinea and the United States remain the only two countries that do not have laws providing for paid maternity/family leave in some form.20 Almost ...

But the United States is one of only seven countries in the world without some form of universal paid family and medical leave. A bipartisan congressional duo is trying to change that.

Three in four Americans have no paid family leave whatsoever from their ... one of the only countries in the world with no form of federal paid leave. Our current patchwork approach doesn ...

The government allows subsidies from the block grant program — in the form of vouchers to families ... we’re going to be able to provide paid family leave, child-care options that are ...

Eleven states and the District of Columbia have some form of mandatory paid family leave, including Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island in New England. California was the first state to ...