Rosa DeLauro actually said...

If there was ever a time that working families need an extra measure of economic security, this is it.

Opponents of a paid sick days measure will claim it's too expensive for businesses. This view is penny-wise but pound-foolish.

To that end, at the height of the H1N1 Flu outbreak, my office distributed 55,000 sick days fliers to the San Francisco Unified School Distr...

For families in the lowest quartile of earners, 79 percent lack paid sick time.