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Would you like a side of the flu with your order?
All around us, people are coming down with the flu – and the Centers for Disease Control warn that it could be the worst flu season in ten years. And to make matters worse, our national workplace policies are helping to spread the flu. Despite the CDC recommending people “stay home and avoid contact with other people,” most workers don’t have that option, as the United States is the only developed country that doesn’t guaranteed paid sick days to its workers.
As a result, 40% of private sector workers and 80% of low-income workers don’t get any paid sick days. In the food industry, where the chances of the flu spreading are highest, 79% of workers say they receive no paid sick leave. Our lack of protections for workers is directly responsible for more flu illnesses around the nation. As a 2009 study in the American Journal of Public Health found, there were as many as 5 million additional cases of the H1N1 flu in 2009, due to a lack of paid sick time
Giving workers what they have earned – which is paid sick days – isn’t about workers rights. It’s about national security, and saving millions of Americans from needlessly contracting the flu when they dine out or go to the grocery store. Unfortunately, the billionaire class running Corporate America has squeezed every bit of profit they can from their workers – denying them union representation, healthcare, and paid vacations and sick leave.
This is insanity – and we should protest with our wallets and pocketbooks. Before dining out, call the restaurant and ask if they offer paid sick days to their employees. If not, then eat there at your own risk.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, Author, "The Myths of Happiness" / Professor of Psychology-UC Riverside (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Conversations with Great Minds - Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, Author-latest, "The Myths of Happiness" / Professor of Psychology-UC Riverside (specializing in the study of happiness) 
The Big Picture Rumble:- Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator / Attorney / Author - Sam Bennett, The She Should Run Foundation - Cherylyn Harley LeBon, Former Senior Counsel-Senate Judiciary Committee & a former spokesperson-RNC
Daily Take: No soup...er, sick days...for you!!
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The Daily Stack 
Hour One: Do you really want Dirty Harry standing outside your school with a gun?- Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sheriff-Maricopa County
Article: " 2nd Amendment". "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Should the names of legal gun owners be published in the newspaper?- Noel Flasterstein, Attorney & host-The Gun Show.
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8. " The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States".
Hour Two: Sandy Hook tragedy...fact or fiction?- Dr. James Tracy, Professor-Media history and analysis, political economy of communication
Hour Three: Why don't Republicans pay their bills?- Lance Roberts, Chief Strategist-Street Talk Advisers
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
He was in charge of U.S. operations in Afghanistan and resigned in controversy after remarks made by his staff appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine...now, he's back with his memoirs, "My Share of the Task"...I'll have a conversation with retired General Stanley McChrystal...
Plus, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
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Thom's Poll
Should armed volunteers be allowed to "guard" schools?
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