Category Archives: Washington

Urgent! Tell WA state senators to improve – not repeal – paid family leave

This is no “Chicken Little” or “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” situation: Washington families, and families-to-be, need your help today. What’s going on? In 2007, we came together to pass a paid family leave law so that parents could spend 5 weeks at home after the birth or arrival of a new child. In theContinue reading “Urgent! Tell WA state senators to improve – not repeal – paid family leave”

Dueling bills introduced on paid family leave law

By Rachel La Corte, AP OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Six years ago, Washington state lawmakers approved a program giving parents five weeks of paid time off to be with a new child. But the question of how to pay for the program was never answered, and now some lawmakers are looking to remove it fromContinue reading “Dueling bills introduced on paid family leave law”

On family leave, most states don’t make the grade

Via Washington Policy Watch: Parents face numerous challenges adjusting to life with a brand new bundle of joy. In the United States, those challenges are intensified by the lack of federal paid family leave policies – pushing parents to strain an already tight family budget or cut bonding time short to return to work. InContinue reading “On family leave, most states don’t make the grade”