Framework Centers Meeting Family Needs, Preventing Child Welfare Involvement

A fact sheet from the National Partnership for Women & Families, “Paid Leave Means A Stronger Nation,” reports that most working people in the United States–73 percent, or 106 million people nationwide–do not have paid family leave through their jobs. Just 14 states have their own paid family and medical leave programs. For working people everywhere else, the lack of paid leave exacerbates other economic and care challenges to public health and our economy including the rising cost of living and a scarcity of reproductive and maternal healthcare. The report highlights that if women participated in the U.S. labor force at the same rate as in countries with national paid leave and other family policies, the economy would benefit from more than $775 billion in additional economic activity annually. View the fact sheet here.