Advocates Push for Paid Family Leave in Virginia
: Jennifer Boysko, right, at a press conference last year. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Last year, 51 year-old Terrence Walker lost his wife, Tracy, to colon cancer. She died in their bedroom, a few doors down from the living room where they were married. Walker’s coworkers at Virginia Commonwealth University pooled enough leave to allow him some time to mourn. “I felt powerless to do anything about the decline of her life,” Walker said. “I never thought that she would die before the age of 50.” Walker spent the previous six and a half years sprinting between hospita...