Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Poll: 74% of Americans Support Federal Paid Leave Program When Costs Not Mentioned

76% of Americans Oppose Cutting Spending to Pay for Federal Paid Leave: Americans would overwhelmingly oppose a new federal paid leave program if it required cutting spending on other programs like Social Security, Medicare, or education.

52% of Americans Oppose Raising Their Taxes $450+ a Year for Federal Paid Leave: As mentioned earlier, a majority of Americans would oppose raising taxes above what the FAMILY Act authors propose to pay for the federal paid leave program.

69% Oppose Federal Paid Leave if it Meant Women Wouldn't Get Promoted: Americans would oppose establishing a federal paid leave program if doing so meant that women would be less likely to get promoted or fewer women would become managers at their jobs.

68% of Americans Oppose Federal Paid Leave if Employers Reduce Other Benefits: If a federal paid leave program meant that employers would reduce other benefits to workers to offset the costs of the new program, such as offering fewer health care benefits or fewer vacation days, 68% would oppose establishing the federal paid leave program.

60% Oppose Federal Paid Leave if They Get Smaller Pay Raises If employers cut back on pay raises to employees to offset the costs of a federal paid leave program, 60% would oppose creating the program and 38% would support it.

62% of Americans Oppose Federal Paid Leave If Workers Who Don't Use It Still Must Pay For It: Americans would oppose establishing a federal paid family leave program if families who don't use the program would still be required to pay higher taxes to provide benefits to others.

Because the costs of the federal paid leave program are unknown, we ask Americans about a low, middle, and high range per person cost estimate of the paid leave program.

https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/cato-institute-2018-paid-leave-survey

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