Rosa DeLauro actually said...

women are not asking, women are demanding, work-life balance.

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...