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Cato Video • May 14, 2020 

# Should the United States Mandate Paid Family Leave? 

As families try to balance work and childcare, a popular answer is to have government mandate paid family leave. Will mandating paid leave help families or could a law hurt the very workers it is meant to help? Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute; Rachel Greszler, research fellow at the Heritage Foundation; and Camille Busette, director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution will discuss in this episode: should the United States mandate paid family leave?

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##### [Veronique de Rugy](/people/veronique-derugy)

George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University 

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##### Rachel Greszler 

Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation

##### Camille Busette