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Reacting to the proposal, Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a nonpartisan think tank, said that experiences in states with paid family leave programs suggested that women in those states were healthier, that their babies were healthier “and that helps them to return to work,” she said.