By Rachel West

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Nearly four million Pennsylvania workers—66 percent—currently lack paid family and medical leave from their employer. That means each year, hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians need to take time off to care for themselves or a loved one, but cannot do so. And those who do, yet must take unpaid or partially paid leave, lose out on $2 billion in wages every year, according to the Center for Law and Social Policy.

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