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Earned Paid Sick Time and Safe Time Provisions
To protect their physical and economic security, survivors of domestic and sexual violence sometimes need to take time off from work to address health and ...
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Earned Paid Sick Time: Supporting Healthy, Thriving Communities
Policies that affect the health of individuals also affect the health of the community. MassBudget's new fact sheet Earned Paid Sick Time: Supporting Healthy, Thriving ...
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Earned Paid Sick Time By the Numbers: Regional and Local Access In Massachusetts
Access to earned paid sick time improves the economic security of working people and families in communities in every region of our Commonwealth. This fact ...
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U.S. & MA Households See Few Gains during Recovery, New Census Data Show
The economic security of working families depends on reliable access to opportunities that offer good incomes and that allow workers to share in the benefits ...
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Balancing Work and Family: The Economic Effects of Earned Paid Sick Time
Many workers are responsible for caring for a family. They face daily challenges of being both good parents and hard-working, effective employees. In recent decades, ...
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Labor Day 2014: Minimum Wage to Rise but Challenges Remain
"Labor Day 2014" examines trends that are shaping the economic lives of working people in Massachusetts and describes effective policies that could move our Commonwealth ...
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Earned Paid Sick Time – Frequently Asked Questions
At some point in their lives, all workers experience a personal health issue or family illness. Yet in Massachusetts, as in most states, if you ...
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The Regional Impact of an $11/Hour Minimum Wage
Last week the Legislature voted to increase the minimum wage to $11 by 2017. This is projected to raise the wages of approximately 605,000 workers. ...
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Investing in People: Jobs and Workforce Training in the Massachusetts State Budget
In conjunction with our new online resource, the Jobs & Workforce Budget (http://workforce.massbudget.org/), this brief analyzes state support for workforce development over the past decade, ...
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The Steep Decline in the Employer Share of Tipped Workers’ Wages
This Facts At A Glance analyzes the declining value of the tipped minimum wage in Massachusetts and compares current proposals for reform.
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