Tag: Family Leave

Alexandra DeSanctis of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cheer the family leave plan pushed by Sen. Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump to allow parents to tap their future Social Security checks to cover the weeks surrounding the birth of a new baby in exchange for waiting extra weeks when they reach retirement.  In addition, Alexandra rebuts the liberal insistence that family leave must be a whole new entitlement.  They also slam Republicans for effectively surrendering the option to use budget reconciliation for the next two years as part of the horrific budget deal with Democrats.  And they fire back at Republican lawmakers who spent Thursday trashing Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster as a waste of time, when those GOP members are really just mad that Sen. Paul called them out for their blatant hypocrisy on deficit spending and not wanting to take a vote on restoring budget caps.

In this AEI Events Podcast, the members of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave discuss their report and their perspectives on paid family and medical leave, hosted by AEI’s Aparna Mathur. This is part 2 of the event, which includes the first and second panel discussion.

The first panel discusses the current landscape and why paid leave needs reform. This panel is comprised of Heather Boushey (Washington Center for Equitable Growth) and Harry J. Holzer (Georgetown University), and is moderated by Richard V. Reeves (Brookings Institution). The second panel explores the challenges of providing paid leave and the benefits and costs of policy designs. This panel is comprised of Doug Holtz-Eakin (American Action Forum) and Betsey Stevenson (University of Michigan), and is moderated by Chrisopher J. Ruhm (University of Virginia).

In this AEI Events Podcast, the members of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Family Leave discuss their report and their perspectives on paid family and medical leave. This is part 1 of the event, which includes the presentation of the report and further reflections on the report.

First, AEI’s Aparna Mathur, joined by the Brookings Institution’s Isabel V. Sawhill, explains the reasons for paid leave and the incomplete existing patchwork of state and private policies. Further reflections are provided by Abby M. McCloskey (McCloskey Policy LLC) and Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University).

What Are the Job Impacts of Family Leave?

 

Ivankanomics proceeds. From Politico: “Trump officials start Hill talks on maternity leave, child-care proposals.” But of course. Other advanced, high-income economies offer, for instance, generous paid leave. Is America not an advanced economy? Is America not a high-income country? Forward!

Yet a review of the economic literature presents a more nuanced view of the benefits of family leave. This from “The Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries” by Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo is worth pondering when considering next steps:

What can we learn from the evolution of family policies across high-income economies? It is a complex tale in which changing economic, cultural and political economy considerations appear to shape (and be shaped) by these policies. No obvious consensus on the labor market impact of parental leave rights and benefits emerges from the empirical literature.