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Two Years After It Passed, Paid Family Leave Program Becomes Centerpiece Of D.C. Council Race – WAMU

November 01, 2018
  • D.C. Policy Center

On November 1, 2018, D.C. Policy Center Executive Director Yesim Sayin Taylor was quoted in a WAMU article by Martin Austermuhle.

“Many of them will tell you that paid leave is a good idea. But businesses in D.C. are irate with the paid leave law because they feel like they’re now tasked with solving a regional problem just using D.C. resources. So they have to compete regionally but they are now bound by these local laws that restrict the choices they have,” she said.

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