"Paid maternity leave is also good for business. After California instituted paid medical leave, a survey in 2011 by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that 91% of employers said the policy either boosted profits or had no effect. They also noted improved productivity, higher morale and reduced turnover."

Hard to believe this is true and that a small business (grocery/hardware/resturant/shop/factory) could experience an increase in profit by giving 18 weeks of paid maternity leave.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/susan-wojcicki-paid-maternity-leave-is-good-for-business-1418773756?mod=trending_now_1

> 91% of employers said the policy
> either boosted profits or had
> no effect.

I simply do not believe it.

Furthermore, if 9% are harmed, why would you even consider it? Do you imagine we're hastening the arrival of a socialist paradise if the literal decimation of your employment base is a mundane side effect?

Christ, I hate the modern mind.

So who was right about triggering?

Me.

(Amy & others too, but still.)

WSJ: "Or they can live in one of the few states—California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island—that have publicly funded paid-maternity-leave laws."

Maybe that's why "91% of employers said the policy either boosted profits or had no effect." They weren't paying for it.

That 91% was of employers surveyed, I wonder how many owners of business that had folded were contacted.

I wonder at the methodology used to select the business contacted.