By Josiah Alexakos
Last year Yahoo! News told the story of Jasmine Dixon, a part-time hourly employee at Wal-mart who was forced to return to work only two weeks after a medically complex birth that ended with her son spending time in the NICU before being allowed to go home. Dixon’s story is hardly unusual. Countless American woman face similarly inhumane situations every year: They want to stay home with their newborn infant where they can enjoy the early days of that baby’s life and adjust to the change in routines that come with a newborn. But many, like Dixon, cannot afford to do so. And so they are forced back to work almost immediately after giving birth.
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