{"id":9016,"date":"2015-09-29T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/state-awarded-family-and-medical-leave-grant\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:45:37","slug":"state-awarded-family-and-medical-leave-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-awarded-family-and-medical-leave-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"State awarded family and medical leave grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Washington state on Tuesday was awarded nearly $250,000 to study and analyze how paid leave programs can be developed and implemented statewide.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The award is part of a $1.5 million nationwide grant provided to eight states by the United States Department of Labor to study paid family and medical leave.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;This is an important signal supporting our efforts to help rebuild the middle class families on which our communities depend,&#8221; said Sen. Karen Keiser, D- Kent, who sponsored Washington&#8217;s first family and medical leave legislation more than nine years ago. &#8220;When working families thrive, our communities thrive and our entire society is healthier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><span>Keiser\u2019s legislation was signed into law in 200<\/span><span>7<\/span><span>. Up until now, it has gone unfunded. This award will explore how to fully implement the law for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>According to the United States Department of Labor, paid leave programs have been shown to improve health outcomes for children, adults and seniors; reduce turnover and increase employee retention, which cuts down on training costs for businesses; keep workers attached to the labor force; and boost earnings over time.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state on Tuesday was awarded nearly $250,000 to study and analyze how paid leave programs can be developed and implemented statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":9017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9016"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}