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TexasTowelie

(112,417 posts) Wed Apr 6, 2016, 02:19 AM Apr 2016

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco became the first place in the country Tuesday to require businesses to provide fully paid leave for new parents in what was hailed as the latest move to address income inequality in the nation.

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San Francisco approves fully paid leave for new parents (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2016 OP

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1. Six weeks of fully paid time off for mothers and fathers is hardly generous.

Wed Apr 6, 2016, 03:39 AM

Apr 2016

Not generous compared to the rest of the Western world. But it is a start. Amazing that only one place in the US offers it. But cheers to SF!