North Carolina workers aren’t alone in their desperate struggle to balance the competing demands of work and family. Half of North Carolina’s private sector workers— 1.6 million to be precise —lack a single paid sick day to care for themselves or a sick family member. Here is the great Tar Heel state, we talk a lot about family values. But when every day, workers here have to risk a paycheck or even their jobs to care for themselves or a sick family member, we’re not walking the talk when it comes to valuing our families at home and in the workplace. That’s why, starting in 2007, a couple of...