The cracks in California’s existing paid family leave program leave many of the state’s low-wage residents, government employees, and people working in the gig economy to fend for themselves.


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Our new report examines why most working Californians are struggling to juggle work and care for family members and examines how the state’s paid family leave program—viewed as a landmark achievement when it was signed in 2002—leaves too many behind.


Salvador’s story…

“Family is all we have so it just breaks my heart that as a contract worker at a hospital and an occasional Lyft driver it’s too expensive for families like mine to access California’s paid family leave plan. Every year there are hundreds of thousands of hard-working families like mine who don’t have the paid time we need to care for our families.”

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