Paid Parental Leave and America's Youngest Poor

Steven Pressman and Robert Scott

Challenge, 2014, vol. 57, issue 5, 65-80

Abstract: Every developed country other than the United States offers parental leave for mothers and fathers paid out of the national budget. The authors say the payments directly reduce child poverty. Is it too costly for the United States? These two economists think not.

Date: 2014
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