Human Impact Partners

Click on links below to access examples of news stories about the HIAs we have completed and their impact.

General News about HIA

• Sustainable Industries: “Built to Heal” by Sara Stroud.

Humboldt County General Plan Update HIA

• The Eureka Reporter: “Humboldt County becomes the first to make health impact assessment part of planning.” by Carol Harrison, April 8, 2008.
  
  
• Community Wheel: "Could Alternative A Save Your Life?” by Jon Beslow, Summer 2008.

Paid Sick Days HIAs

California

• NPR's Marketplace: “Health bill covers California sick leave” (KQED's California Report and approximately 300 other radio stations also covered the story
• San Francisco Chronicle: "Bill Would Require Paid Sick Days for Most"
• Orange County Register: "Paid Sick Days Would Boost Public Health, Supporters Say"
• Orange County Register:"Calif. Mandated Paid Sick Leave Bill is Back"
• Contra Costa Times: "Report: Paid Sick Days a Public-Health Bonanza"
• Ventura County Star: "Ray of Hope for Workers"
• San Diego Chronicle: "Poll Shows California Voters Overwhelmingly Support Paid Sick Days Law"
• San Diego Union-Tribune: "With No Paid Sick Leave, Workers Face Grim Choices"
• San Diego News Network: "Sick employees still coming to work; fear jeopardizing jobs"
• California Progress Report: “New Study on Public Health Beneifts of Paid Sick Leave Just in Time for California Legislation”
• Indy Bay Media: “Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act Press Conference”
• Workers Independent News: "California Study Shows Mandatory Paid Sick Days Would Improve Public Health"
• California Chronicle: "Poll Shows California Voters Overwhelmingly Support Paid Sick Days Law"
• DMI Blog: "Are Our (Lack of) Labor Laws Making You Sick? Paid Sick Days & Public Health"

Maine

• The Times Record: "The business case for paid sick time"
• Portland Press Herald: "We need paid sick time for all"

Massachusetts

• WGBH's Greater Boston: "Oct. 7, 2009 - A bill to make paid sick time mandatory"
• Arlington Advocate, Dover-Sherborn Press and Belmont Citizen Herald: "With Flu worries, paid sick days act pitched as public health measure"

New Hampshire

• New Hampshire Public Radio: "Businesses Balk at Paid Sick Leave Proposal"

New Jersey

• New Jersey Press Media: "RU study: Paid sick days keep us healthier"
• NJ.com: "N.J. workers, firms benefit from paid sick leave"