Assembly Speaker Roberts: No paid family leave

Finally, someone is listening. But he left himself some wiggle room. It's not dead yet.

Seth Grossman's column in today's Asbury Park Press is the best argument against Paid Family Leave that I've read yet:

"Corzine says employees will pay the entire cost of the program through a payroll deduction of one-tenth of 1 percent of wages. Let's check his math.

An employee earning $600 per week would pay 60 cents a week, or $31.20 per year. If he takes 10 weeks of paid family leave that year, he collects $4,000, or roughly 128 times what he put in.

That means Corzine's plan only works if fewer than one in 128 employees takes paid family leave a year. That is unlikely."