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Nurses Just Helped Win US s First Countywide 12-Week Paid Parental Leave Policy
Advocates hope the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, victory will open the door for other localities to follow suit.
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As a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit, Jean Stone knows what it really means to live in a country with no paid parental leave. She’s watched this scene play out so many times it’s almost the norm: Once their babies stabilize in the NICU, parents often return to work to preserve whatever parental leave they have left for when their babies come home. Stone calls the parents in the…
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