paid leave

On Wednesday, Nov. 13, advocates and experts held a virtual press conference highlighting the benefits that a statewide paid family and medical leave program would have for Michiganders and the importance of passing the Michigan Family Leave Optimal...

The United States is the only advanced economy in which workers are not guaranteed paid time off.In a commentary for Brookings, Betsey Stevenson proposes a federal earned paid time off program that would cover all workers, including part-time...

Men and women experience the labor market very differently. Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, who studies those differences notes that women's roles as caregivers, and a lack of affordable childcare or paid leave, are major...

Across the country, paid family leave policies are gaining more and more support. Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, discussed why. “In a tight labor market, you see employers become quite creative in trying to think...

In the latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents found themselves at home watching their children, rather than working, due to daycare closures. Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, explained how child care closures...

This week, Betsey Stevenson helped make sense of the data coming from national jobs reports and unemployment numbers. "The percentage of Americans employed fell off a cliff in the early pandemic. We’re now 75 percent of the way back up that...

Betsey Stevenson is quoted in a January 22 HuffPost piece by Jonathan Cohn, “Paid Family Leave Laws Aren’t Crushing Business, Despite What Ted Cruz Says.”“Paid family leave is finally getting serious attention in Washington and on the campaign...