Democrats Push For Paid Sick Leave As More Americans Call Off Work

The latest numbers from the Labor Department show Americans are calling into work sick nearly twice as much as they did throughout last year.

Across the country, mask mandates are going away. Every state, except Hawaii, has either dropped its mandate or announced plans to do so in the future.

On Jan. 20, the U.S. was averaging 735,652 new COVID-19 cases a day. On Feb. 20, the country was down to 102,385 daily cases. While those numbers have gone down, another number has gone up.

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