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Realistic & Fair Wages Family Economic Security

04/12/11

Photo by Ian Bratton at Freefoto.com A divorced janitor, a 27-year employee and the mother of a seventeen-year old son with the mental capacity of an 18-month old, fails to report for mandatory overtime one Saturday when her son’s caregiver could not work because of a sick child. She calls twice...

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Kristin Maschka

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

April 12 is Equal Pay Day. Chicago women will gather at noon at Daley Plaza! Pay equity is the thorn in corporate America’s side. Every company claims it pays equitably. No employer thinks that it contributes to the 19.8-cents-on-the-dollar pay gap. Yet the evidence keeps piling up. A long-...

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Joanne Cleaver

04/12/11

Mie Lewis, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Women's Rights Project Here at the ACLU, we've seen — and challenged — many of the ways in which the government singles out women for surveillance and control over our private lives. The never-ending fight for reproductive freedom is one obvious example. But...

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Roger Baldwin

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

I was a professional recruiter when I was pregnant with my first child in 2001. Two weeks into my maternity leave my job was eliminated, leaving this new mom without the full-time income that my husband and I had planned on. The day after I was laid off was September 11, the day of the domestic...

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Angela Sasseville

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

If there are images in this attachment, they will not be displayed. Download the original attachment “Hello, my name is Nelsy. I’m 26 years old, and I have many qualities that you would like”… You would think I’m signing up for match.com , but I’m not. I’m signing up for please-hire-me-now.com...

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Nelsy Batista

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

As we continue to mourn the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, and honor her extraordinary life, women today must not forget the words she spoke in her 1984 convention speech, “The issue is not what America can do for women, but what women can do for America.” These words should serve as a clarion call...

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

As a United States Senator, I’m fighting for jobs today and jobs tomorrow. I am on the side of a fair economy, and I am on the side of good guy and gal businesses. We need an economy that works for everyone, and works for the American family. But that means equal pay for equal work, and that is...

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Senator Barbara Mikulski

Realistic & Fair Wages Blog Carnivals

04/12/11

Women have made significant gains in the workplace in recent decades, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their paychecks. For every dollar paid to men in the United States, women earn just about 75 cents. The gap is even wider for female minorities. This disparity, which affects women at all...

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Senator Frank Lautenberg

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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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