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Working Toward Paid Sick Leave in New York City
A 2009 campaign to pass a local law requiring paid sick days was launched in New York City after the Community Service Society (CSS), anti-poverty advocates since 1843, released research showing that few of the city’s low income workers had paid sick leave. Many of these individuals ended up working while sick, sending ill children to school, or seeking...