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About 17% of Americans live in states with family/paternity leave. Zuckerberg's state of California being the first at 6 weeks leave. It's not that progressive
by scurvy 11y ago
About 17% of Americans live in states with family/paternity leave. Zuckerberg's state of California being the first at 6 weeks leave.
It's not that progressive. You'll find more and more states passing family leave laws in the next decade (though I would much prefer something at the federal level besides unpaid job protection).
- bovermyer 11y agoI would say that doing something that less than 1/5th of the country is doing is pretty progressive.
- scurvy 11y agoIt's probably more, but I just added up the populations of CA, WA, and NJ. I know RI has it, but it's population is pretty small. That said, these programs are funded from employee paid disability/unemployment programs. It's not a huge reach for other states to implement similar programs. They just need to be pushed to do so (by we the people).