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Domestic Partner Benefits

NPR's David Molpus reports that only a tiny fraction of U.S. businesses extend benefits to "domestic partners," but in recent years that has started to change. Several hundred businesses have discovered that they can expand the traditional definition of family...and not hurt the bottom line.

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