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OCR Page 1 of 91Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company
The Boston Globe
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May 24, 1999, Monday ,City Edition
SECTION: NATIONAL/FOREIGN; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 944 words
HEADLINE: Clinton vows to let states help parents; Benefits touted for infant care
BYLINE: By Ann Scales, Globe Staff
BODY:
GRAMBLING, La. - Calling parents too stressed and overworked, President Clinton said
yesterday he would order a change in federal regulations that would allow workers to collect
unemployment benefits while on leave to care for newborn or newly adopted children.
In a commencement address at Grambling State University, the president said the revisions
would give states the enlarged authority to provide the benefits. The change follows inquiries
from Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington and Vermont, which, the White House said, have
bills pending in their legislatures to allow them to use surpluses in unemployment insurance
programs to pay leave benefits to new parents.
Clinton also proposed greatly expanding the government's sick leave policy to allow federal
workers up to 12 weeks off with pay to care for seriously ill family members. Neither action,
White House aides said, requires the approval of Congress.
Clinton said the federal government needed to find "creative ways to help Americans use benefits
they've worked for to finance the time off they need for their families."
He said last month's killing of 14 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton,
Colo., coupled with a recent spate of hate crimes, underscored the importance of making "the
bonds that tie parents to children stronger."
Armed with a new study by his Council of Economic Advisers that shows that more parents are
working outside the home and have less time for their children, he said, "It all begins with
family, with parents who love their children more than life and raise them to live their
dreams."
According to the study, the percentage of married mothers in the work force has nearly doubled
over the last 30 years, from 38 percent in 1969 to 68 percent in 1996.