Paid family leave will never work

Published December 16, 2019 7:23pm ET



Last week, in an unprecedented bipartisan move, President Trump signed what will amount to a throwaway paid family leave bill to appease his daughter Ivanka Trump, who’s been trying to push through her child care agenda for two years.

I guess the Trumps didn’t get the memo. In 2004, California became the first of two states to offer paid family leave, and the results of that 15-year effort were released in October.

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