Employers, Work-Family Supports, and Low-Wage Workers

This Urban Institute report presents motivations and barriers faced by employers that provide work-family supports. The report also highlights employer perceptions about public policies that help low-wage workers address or manage work-family supports, such as paid leave, workplace flexibility, and subsidized child care. The findings also reveal ways that employer-based policies can be integrated and aligned with work-family supports. The report draws on interviews with 16 organizations that represent or directly work with employers and notes that further research on work-family supports for low-wage workers is needed.