NOW President Terry O’Neill wrote an Op-ed for OtherWords.org about the importance of keeping Social Security intact for all women: “Women already comprise the largest group of elderly who live in poverty, a fact that reveals the urgency of improving–n…
Dawn Kopecki writes for Bloomberg: “Women managers in finance, a group that includes bank tellers as well as executives, earned 63.9 cents for every dollar of income men earned in 2000, based on median salaries, according to Government Accountability Office statistics analyzed by Bloomberg. In 2007, the last year for which data are available, the figure was 58.8 cents. The 41-cent gap was the biggest in any of 13 industries surveyed by the GAO, and only two others had a widening disparity.”
We just can’t have someone with obvious animosity toward women and seniors making important decisions on Social Security. This commission is supposed to be developing ways to reduce the national debt, which, by the way, has nothing to do with Social Security. The canard that the Social Security trust fund is going broke is always brought out by the same crowd who want to cut taxes for the rich.
The Prospect’s Adam Liebendorfer reports on how the showdown between NOW President Terry O’Neill and Fiscal Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson ended when O’Neill presented him with a special gift: “NOW President Terry O’Neill went to a National Commission…
Politico’s Patrick Gavin reports on NOW’s “Tits for an Ass” campaign:”NOW President Terry O’Neill will make the delivery herself, all in the hopes of drawing attention to her goal: Kicking Simpson off the Commission as part of its ‘Tits for an Ass’ campa…