 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on Aug. 10, 2016 in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By Danielle Paquette Donald Trump released Tuesday a paid maternity leave plan — the first from a Republican presidential nominee. The measure, a pillar of the real estate mogul's child-care proposal, bears close resemblance to an idea floated by Bill Clinton in 1999. Trump's plan would guarantee six weeks of paid maternity leave to women; currently, federal policy provides only 12 weeks of unpaid time off. He would fund the change by tweaking the unemployment insurance employers must provide under federal law, according to the campaign. The country's Federal-State Unemployment Insurance supplies benefits to workers who lose their job through no fault of their own. What that means varies by state, but the state-run program generally covers workers who are laid off. Trump's proposal would open the aid to new mothers, who often miss wages as life's expenses surge. Employers would not absorb the burden, Trump aides said, because reductions in the existing program would offset the cost. Advocates for working families in the late 1990s called a version of this concept baby unemployment insurance, or "Baby UI." The first iteration emerged in Vermont, where policymakers saw the legislation as a way to boost working mothers, the breadwinners in a growing number of American households. It never passed. | 
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