Wage loss and job loss for workers without paid sick days
Income is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of poor health and disease in the
public health research literature. The impact of income on health is mediated in part through
material conditions. Current gaps between self-sufficiency suggest that even a small loss of income
on a monthly basis may lead to health adverse trade-offs between housing, heating and cooling,
transport to jobs or schools, food, and health care services