Oklahoma Makes Progress on Family Leave, but More Needs to be Done — Opinion

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The United States is the only industrialized nation without a paid leave policy. I spent the better part of last week at a conference hosted by the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center looking at Paid Family Leave laws across the states.

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