Out of 186 countries, 96 percent provide some pay to women who are on maternity leave.  81 countries provide paid leave to fathers. The United States lags far behind.

Our focus today is how paid leave affects many things including families and business, and women's earning potential.
Maya Rossin-Slater is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, and her BA in Economics and Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. Rossin-Slater’s research includes topics such as paid leave, health care, public and labor economics. She focuses on issues in maternal and child well-being, family structure and behavior, health disparities, and public policies affecting disadvantaged populations in the United States and other developed countries. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award and has published articles in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Her paid leave research includes California, And New York and a bit of Rhode Island.

We talk about the family health and well-being benefits that paid leave offers, and how it can help with mother and infant mortality rates. She says the leave is not long enough in the United States so there is very small positive or no effect on women's labor work trajectories. We also touch on how paid leave can help low income or otherwise disadvantaged families. She also said that COVID changed attitudes of employers towards paid leave.

CT Paid Leave began giving benefits in January of 2022. Since then, we have had a total of 134, 384 claims, and of those that were approved as of June 26 we have had a total of 83, 564 workers get benefits for their own serious health issues or that of a loved one. As of June first we have given out more than 375 million dollars in benefits.

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