Washington Post story by Howard Kurtz quoting Keller on why the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on racial relations, April 17. The U.S. is actually the least generous of the industrialized nations. In Sweden, a new mother gets 18 months of maternity and parental leave, and she gets 80 percent of her salary for the first year. Mother or father can take the parental leave any time until a child is eight. England gives 18 weeks maternity leave.
German women get two months of fully paid leave after giving birth.
The government and the company kick in, and either parent has the option of three full years in parental leave with some of their salary paid and their jobs protected. Peter Jennings, April 19 World News Tonight , right after a story on a study showing more aggression in children who attend day care. First of all, I finally decided to get rid of those two words, liberal and conservative. I mean, I ve come down to sense and nonsense. It makes sense to me, it s got nothing to do with conservative or liberal, it makes sense to me that hunters be allowed to have rifles.