By Lane Gillespie, Bankrate.com

Alexis Leone, a 34-year-old mother of five in rural Mississippi, initially tried her best to juggle her full-time job with her youngest child’s needs.

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Leone’s son is partially deaf and has a severe allergy to ants. But her workplace was unable to accommodate Leone’s multiple appointments a week for speech therapy, weekly allergy treatments and other medical needs for her son, and she says it was unwilling to work with her Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) request. (FMLA is a federal labor law that requires most companies to offer unpaid, protected leave for a family or medical reason.) So, she quit her job, and she now relies on Medicaid and her husband’s commission-based income to meet her family’s health and financial needs.

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