Unpaid Sick Days Leave Parents With Tough Choices During Flu Season

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9 Oct 2009

A recent report on ABC News about parents having to deal with the threat of the H1N1 virus without access to paid sick days:

Supporters of mandatory sick days say the government is kidding itself if it thinks American families can fight swine flu or any other public health crisis without sick leave for all Americans.

“These people are people who live paycheck to paycheck. So not getting a paycheck that day means they might not be able to feed their children that evening,” said Deborah Leff, president of the Public Welfare Foundation.

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