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In April, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) reintroduced the Healthy Families Act (HR 1902/S 932), legislation that would guarantee workers the opportunity to earn up to seven paid sick days per year -- days that could be used to care for themselves or a family member when they are ill or in the case of domestic violence. Although the federal government offers at least 13 paid sick days to its employees and no state government offers fewer than 8 to theirs, nearly half of private employees do not receive the same consideration. As such, men and women are forced to go to work sick, send a sick child to school, or improvise less-than-ideal solutions when a family member is sick.

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