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Sick leave is in the house bill that passed yesterday along with paid family leave. White house supports it so it should pass the senate with little problems.

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Those benefits only apply to people who work at companies that have less than 500 employees. Unfortunately, that leaves most people in the lurch.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/coronavirus-pelos...

Those are the companies that won't survive without it. The bigger companies are expected to fund it themselves.

No it isn’t. It excludes almost everyone.

That bill is an embarrassment. Doing something about that is kind of exactly what I’m talking about.

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