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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Yanlei Ma on Paid Sick Leave Mandates and Health Care Use
Description: Paid sick leave is a benefit many of us take as a given, but almost one-quarter of workers in the United States don't get any paid sick leave at all.That puts the employee in a very difficult position - reluctant to not go to work even when sick because they can't afford to lose their wages. Other high-income countries mandate sick leave and in 2012 Connecticut became the first state to adopt a sick leave mandate.Fifteen other states and the District of Columbia have followed suit.<...