Nowhere is our misplaced obsession with ‘efficiency’ more evident than in the lack of paid family leave for new parents and mothers. Paid family leave is positive both economically and socially. We need to join the rest of the civilized world and adopt it.https://www.yang2020.com/policies/paid-family-leave/ …
Cornell economist Robert H. Frank has excellent work on how gov't policies can help workers escape from runaway workaholism, and restore work/life/family balance. Paid family leave is a good example of how that can work. Look him up!
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PS Prof. Frank argues there's a coordination failure: individual workers try to out-compete each other by working longer hours with less vacation, but if they could all agree to more holiday & leave, they'd all be happier & make more babies. That's the gov'ts possible role here.
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Believe me, I'm not working longer hours to outdo coworkers, I'm doing it to pay bills.
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