Senate Republicans blocked a vote to raise the minimum wage yesterday, for a number of SUPER SERIOUS REASONS like “jobs” and “small business owners” and “the economy.” The current minimum wage is only two-thirds of the 1968 minimum wage, adjusted for inflation. Fifty years ago the minimum wage was enough to lift a single parent Read more …
April 8th recognizes part of the economic disparity women struggle with, and our #RealPay campaign has tried to suss out how race and other societal realities put women at a considerable financial disadvantage. But there is another layer to the way pay discrimination works: LGBT-identified individuals are much more economically vulnerable than their straight counterparts.1 Read more …
Rachel West and Michael Reich write for the Center for American Progress: “The federal minimum wage has not been raised for five years. Its real value today—$7.25 per hour—is less than two-thirds of what it was in 1968. Such a low minimum wage means that many full-time workers live in poverty. They must rely on Read more …
Shadee Ashtari writes for the Huffington Post: “[Phyllis] Schlafly concluded that the best way to empower women ‘is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.’”
GOP candidate for Senate in Michigan Terri Lynn Land finds herself in hot water over anti-equal pay statements made in 2010. Ed Shultz and Terry O’Neill (NOW President) discuss.