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This Woman Lost Her Job Because Her Kid Got Sick—and She's Not Alone Posted: 07 Feb 2014 05:31 PM PST When Chicago public schools closed for a snow day in late January, single mom Rhiannon Broschat was forced to choose between her special needs son and her part-time grocery store job. Broschat is just one of the untold millions of parents who would benefit from the Obama administration's ongoing push for paid family and sick leave, equal pay, and quality child care. Currently, the U.S. ranks with Liberia, Suriname, and Papua New Guinea in the stinginess of its family leave policies, even though paid maternity leave is associated with lower infant mortality and better retention of talented female employees. If you have a family emergency, a family responsibility, you should not lose your job over it," says Liz Watson of the Washington, D.C.–based National Women's Law Center.

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