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Sep 06, 2021
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Here’s a Labor Day history lesson – to equip and empower working Americans.

Did you know that employer-sponsored health benefits are almost as old as America itself? In 1798 John Adams, the second U.S. president, signed a law that took 20 cents per month from the paychecks of U.S. seamen to fund their medical care. After the Civil War, lumber, mining, an…

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