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iiclr-22890	Pham, Christine	A Digression in Our Advancing Society: A Lack of Protection and Consideration for Modern Families	2018	30	.pdf	application/pdf	12399	624	59	The Institute for Women’s Policy Research conducted a research study showing the contributions of paid leave policies to economic growth.239 The study shows that paid family leave may increase labor force participation, increased fertility rates, increased likelihood of return to work after childbirth, improvement on employee morale, and improvement on family incomes.240 The legislation securing paid leave could relieve employees of their fears and concerns with job security. Paid leave is correlated with stronger labor force attachment and receiving low levels of public assistance in the year after the birth of their child.241 Women who reported taking paid leave after childbirth were more likely to be working nine to twelve months later compared to women who did not take leave at all.242 Additionally, women who took paid leave were forty percent less likely to be receiving food stamps and thirty-nine percent less likely to receive forms of public assistance in the year after the birth of a child than a woman who returned to work without taking any form of leave.243 A concept that United States policymakers have grappled with is free childcare and education.	cache/iiclr-22890.pdf	txt/iiclr-22890.txt