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- <title>
- Sep. 21, 1992: Families and Work
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Sep. 21, 1992 Hollywood & Politics
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- BUSINESS, Page 18
- Families and Work
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- <p>Top companies launch a dependent-care program for employees
- </p>
- <p> Big corporations generally prefer that employees leave their
- personal lives at home. But with 57% of women with children
- under six working outside the home, and 10% of all workers also
- serving as the primary caretakers for aging parents, business
- executives are finding that workers without proper day-care
- arrangements are workers whose minds aren't on the job. To help
- regain their attention, 137 major companies and organizations--from AT&T to Mobil to the YMCA--announced an unprecedented
- program to fund dependent care for employees' children and
- elderly relatives.
- </p>
- <p> The newly formed American Business Collaboration for
- Quality Dependent Care plans to devote $25 million to fund 300
- programs in 44 communities around the U.S., including
- Washington. The initiatives range from in-home arrangements for
- the elderly to school vacation programs and day-care facilities.
- In Washington, the House approved legislation that would provide
- employees with as much as 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year to
- care for relatives and newborn or sick children. But President
- Bush is expected to veto the bill.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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