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With so many women in Congress, the nation looked closer than ever to affordable child care and paid family leave. So far, nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alia E. Dastagir, Charisse Jones, Courtney Crowder, and Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy with USA Today<\/a> found out why.<\/p>\n

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