Here’s how that all adds up: women work hard, meet their responsibilities, follow the rules — and still, too often, can’t save for things like a down payment on a house in a good school district, or their kids’ college education, let alone their own retirement.
Josh Eidelson writes for Salon: “A slide from Wal-Mart’s U.S. CEO’s presentation to Goldman Sachs’ retail conference boasts that ‘Over 475K’ U.S. employees earned more than $25,000 last year. Activist workers and members of Congress seized on that statis…
Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford write for The Nation: “In reality, that government shutdown was partial and selective. Paychecks, for example, kept flowing to the very lawmakers who most fervently supported it, while the plush congressional gym with its h…
Josh Eidelson writes for Salon: “Dozens of workers at a Florida Wal-Mart walked off the job this morning, mounting the first Wal-Mart store work stoppage since the firings of twenty workers who participated in an extended June strike.”
But in the real-life disaster that in the Republican Tea Party’s government shutdown, “women and children first” is the order in which victims of the shutdown are selected.