Republicans remain active in efforts to craft pro-family, pro-work, budget-neutral solutions for paid family leave. | DESERET NEWS

New BPC poll reveals more than one-third of unemployed workers would return to work sooner if offered paid family leave. | BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER

Another working mom calls for paid family leave. | IDAHO PRESS

Economic changes and the ongoing pandemic raise questions about work-family balance. | THE HILL

Family caregiving experiences shed light on need and options for paid leave. | WILLSTON HERALD

Working mother in Alaska draws on personal experience to craft paid leave policy for her employer | READ ON POYNTER

Paid family leave - a policy that echos Benjamin Franklin's admonition to "do well by doing good.” | NC POLITICAL NEWS

Paid leave reaches the local level, as Kentucky school board responds to Delta variant. | WSILTV.COM

Baby boom associated with pro-family policies during the pandemic suggests longer-term positive impact of such policies upon fertility rates. | INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES

A mother's personal story underscoring the need for paid family leave. | AMERICAN COMPASS

Paid family leave could help bring desired rates of childbearing to fruition. | AMERICAN COMPASS

Former NFL player turned public official sets precedent for paternity leave. | PEOPLE

Calls for paid leave are increasingly sounding at the state and local levels. | WTRF

We need a national paid family and medical leave program. Here's what Congress can do. | NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER

State-level Republican support for paid leave grows as Republican federal legislators present more policy options. | HERALD DISPATCH

Businesses call on Congress to pass paid family leave in a bipartisan fashion. | THE HILL

Paid family leave promotes children's welfare and parental bonding, including bonds between adopting parents and their adoptive children. | TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT

Extending paid leave would help members of the military balance starting or growing their families with their responsibilities to protect the nation, service members say. Lily Sasser’s baby arrived three months early, but her husband had to return to work at Fort Bragg a week later. | CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS

Republicans in Congress should support bipartisan proposals to make paid leave for families a reality, such as the one offered by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), writes Jon Schweppe. Their plan “would cost the taxpayer virtually nothing while being extremely beneficial to families, providing them with access to cash at a time when they need it the most,” he argues. | TOWNHALL

Paid maternity leave can improve the well-being of mothers, especially among Black Americans by reducing the maternal mortality rate in the US, writes Joia Crear-Perry. As of now in the US, the six weeks following labor are when 40% of maternal deaths happen, and 23% of new mothers return to their workplace only 10 days after giving birth. | BLOOMBERG