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04/12/11

By Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Today Americans observe Equal Pay Day – the date that marks the extra days that women must work into 2011 in order to equal what men earned in 2010. To correct this injustice, today I will introduce the...

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Senator Tom Harkin

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

As a growing segment of America’s workforce, women now hold nearly half of today’s jobs. Their earnings account for a significant portion of the household income that sustains the financial well-being of their families. Almost 50 years after enactment of the Equal Pay Act, equal pay for equal work...

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Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

Realistic & Fair Wages

04/12/11

Today is Equal Pay Day , which symbolizes how many weeks into 2011 women must work simply to match what men made in 2010. It’s a stunning pay gap, but there’s a growing class of workers whose conditions are even more outrageous: part-timers. The great recession has forced millions of full-time...

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Ann Crittenden

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

Just to show you how important it is to have women in leadership positions, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the court appears to be divided among gender lines in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination case. From the Los Angeles Times : “Led by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, the...

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Elisa Batista

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

On April 12, 2011, the nation observes Equal Pay Day to symbolize that women have to work a year plus more than three months to equal what men make in just one year, on average. This past year women were paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men in the U.S. For women of color, the gap is even...

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Linda Meric

Environmental Health Food!

04/11/11

Today, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) and 72 members of Congress sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urging the EPA to finalize their long-delayed study on Dioxin once and for all. Read all about it in Rep. Markey's press release. EPA’s study on dioxin has been delayed for over 20 years due...

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Mike Schade

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

04/11/11

According to magazines and TV commercials, I will be spending the next three months in a swimsuit. To someone who has worked full time every summer since I was fourteen, and had the Bay Area pleasure of having a sultry summer day cap out around 65 degrees, I say hooray! (Although I’m still not sure...

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Claire Moshenberg

Realistic & Fair Wages Family Economic Security

04/11/11

“Women will never make as much money as men…God made Adam first, and so women would always be second to men.” "If you would wear lower cut shirts...., you would probably get more pay.” [1] These are just two of many, many horribly sexist comments that Wal-Mart managers said to female employees...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

04/09/11

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org You probably know that GDP stands for gross domestic product and is used as a measure of the value of all goods and services produced in the national economy. Economists and elected...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health

04/09/11

A MomsRising member recently asked us: “ Is there a list of Bisphenol A (BPA)-free canned goods ?” It's a common question that comes from a common situation. After all, BPA is a toxic chemical that's been linked with cancer, learning disabilities, infertility, and more. So, like all of us, this...

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Claire Moshenberg