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Tom Harkin: “The lack of paid sick days is a crisis for public health that will make the H1N1 outbreak worse.”

On the recordNovember 9, 2009
The lack of paid sick days is a crisis for public health that will make the H1N1 outbreak worse.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin warns that insufficient paid sick days could exacerbate the H1N1 outbreak.

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