Businesses increasingly recognize the importance of paid leave policies to attract and retain talent, with more and more executives and agencies supportive of national leave policy. Paid leave is critical for businesses to ensure that their workforce can stay home if sick and not risk COVID-19 infections in the workplace. Moreover, paid leave boosts productivity and increases retention; women with paid leave are 93% more likely to be working one year after birth than those with no leave. Seventy-seven percent of workers say paid family leave would sway their choice of employer. Paid leave is critical for businesses to ensure that their workforce can stay home if sick and not risk COVID-19 infections in the workplace. … [Read more...] about In the face of divisive politics, paid family leave should remain a bipartisan priority
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Female-founded companies will save our economy. Here’s why
A better economic recovery requires investment in women-owned businesses The free market of venture capital has proven it will not fix this capital-allocation and investment problem. So we need to fix it through targeted policy, and the incoming Biden-Harris administration can lead the way. Our economy depends on it. By using policy to create a competitive marketplace with a level playing field, the new administration can catalyze equitable economic prosperity for all. Female founders are not an act of charity. They are a smart investment in our economic recovery and future economic growth. … [Read more...] about Female-founded companies will save our economy. Here’s why
