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Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.

Companies understand that if their employees are sick, it's really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system.

America is the only high income nation without a paid family leave program. This means that if you or a family member gets sick, there is no guarantee that you can take the time you need to take care of yourself or your loved one, leaving already vulnerable families in the position of making hard decisions in cases of illness.

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.

When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

I think it's unrealistic for public-sector employees to believe that they are immune from modifications to their pay and benefit packages.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.