A Brief Note On The United States And Papua New Guinea

Time to Care If America is the greatest country in the world for its inhabitants, Colorado must be the best place in the United States for whoever is lucky to call it home. However, if you ever decide to have a child anywhere in Colorado, you will find out that it is not as great as you might have thought. As of today, the United States accompanies the non-developed Suriname (South America) and Papua New Guinea (Australia) in the group of the only three countries in the world that do not offer any kind of paid maternity leave, as reported recently by ABC News. If some American states, like California and New Jersey, are correcting that mistake with proper state laws, Colorado falls far behind. As the liberal state that allows you to grow†¦show more content†¦It would work similarly as what happens with taxes that go towards unemployment insurance; however, only those who decided to join would have that collection taken. Therefore, any participant could require a paid parenta l leave with the birth of a child. The senate denied the bill and buried Colorado in the limbo of states where having a kid is even more challenging to the parents’ life. Although the majority of the cost of the program would come from the participants’ income, the major concern of the politicians who disapproved the bill still related to the costs of a project. Local businesses also present the same concern about paid maternity leave. However, both groups – always so worried about monetary outcomes – should see the big picture. In the past years, Colorado saw a decline of its birth rate, which is also below the country’s average. According to the latest National Vital Statistics Report, births in Colorado stopped increasing in the past ten years; to explain that trend, the â€Å"Ages and Stages† study, from the Cassandra Report – specialized in researching trends among the millennials generation – showed that 34% of American a dults born after 1985 do not want to have kids. The unwillingness to give up flexibility is the most cited reason between the participants; in a state with no paid maternity leave, you need to be very flexible to have a kid. What does that have to do with economy, though? In the