There’s exciting news out of Florida!
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In the past few weeks, we’ve seen paid sick days efforts progress and make headlines in cities and states throughout the country — and support for the federal Healthy Families Act continues to grow in Congress.
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It’s National Public Health Week — a time when the nation’s public health community unites around one aspect of public health to raise awareness and improve the health of the nation.
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Today, as paid sick days activity continues throughout the country, Senator Tom Harkin (D – Iowa) introduced an exciting new piece of federal legislation that could establish a national paid sick days standard and highlights the critical connection between workers’ access to paid sick days and working families’ economic security.
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As families across the country enjoy unusually warm weather and prepare for the summer, paid sick days campaigns are heating up too.
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A powerful new report released this week paints a dire picture for workers in the restaurant industry.
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On Wednesday morning, at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) described for the first time sweeping new legislation that he plans to introduce this spring: the Rebuild America Act.
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2011 was a historic year in the effort to guarantee workers the right to earn paid sick days.
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This year, we have seen incredible momentum in the fight for paid sick days laws.
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When President Obama proclaimed November National Family Caregivers Month this year, he described family caregiving as “heroic work… often done while caregivers balance other commitments to their families, jobs, and communities.”
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A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health shows that various racial and ethnic groups were at greater risk of exposure to H1N1 during the pandemic because they didn’t have access to paid sick days.
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Paid Sick Days and Health: Cost Savings from Reduced Emergency Room Visits finds that, regardless of workers' access to health insurance, there are undeniable connections between the ways in which private sector workers use the health care system and whether they have access to paid sick days.
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Demos and Young Invincibles released a timely new report today on the barriers to economic success facing young adults in the United States.
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Despite months of passionate and dedicated work by the Campaign for Healthy Denver and its allies in support of a citywide paid sick days standard, Initiative 300 did not pass.
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As National Work and Family Month drew to a close this time last year, working families were hopeful that the upcoming election would mean that the economy would turn around, families would regain control of their finances and economic security, and the country would finally get back on track after a crippling recession.
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One of the delights of an early November election is volunteering for a campaign on Halloween.
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When I was packing my suitcase for Denver, I made sure to throw in a purple sweater.
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One of the biggest threats to the well-being of our nation's women and families is poverty.
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Hi, all. It’s Helen, work and family policy associate at the National Partnership.
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In a significant victory for workers in Philadelphia, the City Council voted 15-2 to pass a provision providing workers at businesses that contract with or receive financial support from the city to the right to earn paid sick days.
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