Job growth has been strong in San Francisco compared with other Bay Area counties following implementation of a new paid sick days standard in San Francisco on February 5, 2007, according to data from the California Employment Development Department

As the twenty-first century unfolds, women of diverse faiths claim authority as healing agents of change in a world that aches for justice and peace.

Research reveals that a great majority of women in the U.S. rely on their involvement in religious groups as powerful venues to gather, think, share, and strategize about ways to fortify their own lives as well as serve the common good.

Asthma treatment is a priority for Wisconsin’s public health system, according to the Wisconsin Turning Point Transformation Team.

The Challenge to Act describes the values-based public visions of women activists involved in progressive movements for change.

Policy makers across the country are increasingly interested in ensuring the adequacy of paid sick days policies. In addition to concerns about workers' ability to respond to their own health needs, there is growing recognition that, with so many dual-earners and single-parent families, family members' health needs can be addressed only by workers taking time from their scheduled hours on the job.

Nearly half the private-sector workforce is vulnerable to loss of income or their job when they are sick, and only one in three has a paid sick days policy for caring for their family (Hartmann 2007, Lovell 2004).

Paid time off benefits are less common in smaller firms, but even in the smallest—those with one to nine employees—more than half provide paid sick days (56 percent), and nearly three-quarters have vacation policies (72 percent).

Testimony presented to the Joint Economic Committee At the hearing: “The Employment Situation: May 2008”

In February 2007, at the request of the Rockefeller Foundation, the consulting firm Yankelovich fielded a survey to explore Americans’ sense of economic insecurity.