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Tom Harkin: “Almost half of all private sector workers--including 79 percent of low-wage workers--have no paid sick days.”

On the recordNovember 9, 2009
Almost half of all private sector workers--including 79 percent of low-wage workers--have no paid sick days.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin highlights the lack of paid sick days affecting many American workers.

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