Month: March 2015
March 30, 2015
Don’t Wait for an Ebola Outbreak to Pass Paid Sick Days
By Melissa Josephs All of us will get sick at some point, sick enough to need to stay home. But in Illinois, 43 percent of…
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March 17, 2015
Affordable Family Leave: It’s About Time
By Ellen Bravo Consider the tale of two sisters, both employed in similar jobs. One has a child in Wisconsin; the other gives birth several…
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March 16, 2015
Dear Governor Cuomo: Women Leaders Are Hungry for Paid Leave
As President Obama noted in his State of the Union address, the U.S. is “the only advanced country on Earth that doesn’t guarantee paid sick…
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March 6, 2015
How Corporate Lobbies Are Trying to Delay Justice
by Ellen Bravo We’ve all seen a toddler who realizes they’re losing the game and knocks all the pieces to the floor. It doesn’t change…
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