Take Action   Campaigns   Healthy Families Act  Blog  News  Toolkit   Advocate Login   Home  

Press Materials

• New Report! The Healthy Families Act: A Health Impact Assessment (June 11, 2009)
• Read the News Release
•  Read a summary of Findings
•  Read the Full Report
  
  
•  Full Written Testimony of Debra L. Ness at House Committee on Education and Labor on the Healthy Families Act and FIRST Act (June 11, 2009)
  
  
• Nation’s Top Work/Family Expert Applauds Introduction of Paid Sick Days Legislation  (May 19, 2009)
  
  
• Stay Home with Swine Flu Symptoms? Not Without Paid Sick Days, Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families (April 28, 2009)
  
  
• Fact Sheets
  
•  Why the Healthy Families Act is Good for Business 
•  Why the Healthy Families Act is Good for Working Families 
•  Working Women Need Paid Sick Days
•  Paid Sick Days Are Good for Children’s Health 
•  Paid Sick Days Improve Our Public Health 
•  Workers Caring for Older Relatives Need Paid Sick Days
•   Paid Sick Days: Busting the Myths
  
  
• List of Experts
  

Related Articles

• Don't want swine flu with lunch? Then offer paid sick leave (June 18, 2009 New York Daily News)
• Paid Sick Days, a Luxury in the U.S. (June 2009, Poder 360)
• Report: Paid Sick Leave Doesn’t Hurt Economy (June 13, 2009 AFL-CIO NOW Blog)
• Sick-Leave Lives Despite Milwaukee Ruling (June 12, 2009 Daily Reporter)
• Trying Times Call for Healthy Families Act (June 8, 2009 Women's eNews)
• Let Sick Workers Stay Home (June 6, 2009 Boston Globe)
• Staying Home When Sick Might Be Wise (May 27, 2009 Forbes)
• Bill Would Guarantee Up to 7 Paid Sick Days (May 15, 2009 New York Times)
• A Case for Paid Sick Days (May 15, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle)
• What Mom Really Needs (May 8, 2009 Forbes)
• Calling in Sick (May 6, 2009 Philadelphia Daily News)
• Swine Flu or Not, Many Workers Can't Stay Home (May 1, 2009 Associated Press)