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...again, Washington has failed to address the needs of working parents -- most recently in June, when President Bush vetoed the family-leave bill on the ground that it was too burdensome for business. The bill would have allowed a worker to take up to 12 weeks a year of unpaid leave to care for a newborn, an adopted child or a sick family member...
That is abysmal compared with what other industrialized nations allow. Salaried women in France can take up to 28 weeks of unpaid maternity leave or up to 20 weeks of adoption leave, though they are less likely to need it since day care, health care and early education are widely available in that country. In France, as well as in Belgium, Italy and Denmark, at least 75% of children ages 3 to 5 are in some form of state-funded preschool programs. In Japan both the government and most companies offer monthly subsidies to parents with children. In Germany parents...
Most of the students at the forum, which was moderated by Thomas J. Samuelian, president of the Law School Council, said that it should be a vital part of a legal education to have students do unpaid legal work in the public sector...
...accompanied by some sort of a rebate plan for the poor to counteract the regressive nature of such a tax. Already, American consumers pay absurdly low gasoline prices by global standards. Taxing gasoline heavily makes good economic sense, because fossil fuel consumption carries with it heavy, unpaid social costs--notably environmental destruction...
Nebraska's Governor served as an unpaid model in a recent Lands' End mail- order catalog promoting the company's attache bag. Now Democratic opponent Ben Nelson is complaining that the publicity from the ad constitutes an undeclared contribution to her re-election campaign...