Family Leave for Lower-Income Working Families

Low-income families face unique challenges that may influence how they use family leave and related supports to maintain employment while caring for their families.  Consistent with the President’s executive order on economic mobility, which aims to improve employment outcomes and economic independence and address the challenges of populations that may particularly struggle to find and maintain employment, ASPE has produced a series of analyses considering how to make family leave and related policies most effective for lower income working families.

• Supporting Employment among Lower-Income Mothers: Paid Family Leave and Child Care Arrangements (2020)

• Low-Income Workers’ Eligibility for Emergency Paid Family Leave (2020)

• Facilitating Low-Income Families’ Use of Emergency Paid Family Leave: Considerations for Human Services Agencies in Supporting Workers and Their Employers (2020)

• Supporting Employment Among Lower-Income Mothers: Attachment to Work After Childbirth (2019)

• Supporting Employment Among Lower-Income Mothers: The Role of Paid Family Leave (2019)

• Supporting Employment Among Lower-Income Mothers: Appendix A (2019)

• Supporting Employment Among Lower-Income Mothers: Appendix B 2019)

• Exploring the Relationship Between Paid Family Leave and the Well-Being of Low-Income Families: Lessons from California (2017)

• Work-Family Supports for Low-Income Families (2014)

ASPE has also produced several analyses on child care and the Child Care and Development Fund, another key work support for low-income families, which may be accessed here.