The American Workplace Isn’t Prepared for This Much Grief
The pandemic has highlighted the fact that without a federal bereavement policy, many people are subject to the whims of state legislatures and individual companies.
Chad Broughton
Chad Broughton is an instructional professor in public policy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities.
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