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[ID] 854 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen [Comment] The facts are there if we just look, the USA has one of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world, and the shortest paid maternity leave in the developed world. It is a very obvious link. What is more valuable, our children, or business? When we invest in people, it comes around to better business too, unfortunately we have all been told otherwise. The USA is supposed to be wealthy, so how can people argue that we can't afford a long maternity leave? That business would suffer and so would our wallets? Other countries afford it just fine (Canada for one) and they are poorer in the first place! There is no argument that holds water, what we save in short maternity leave we pay in medical bills, look at the statistics for breast fed and bottle fed babies, we are buying drugs, Dr. visits, and hospital stays for all those formula fed babies! [Topic] 
Paid Maternity Leave
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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