The U.S. Supreme Court will consider a number of high profile cases this term – cases that cover a broad swath of American life, from access to reproductive health care, to affirmative action, public sector unions, voting rights, and (again) contraceptive insurance coverage exceptions under of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
NOTE: Again, a crazed, lone gunman is responsible for a mass shooting. The tragedy occurred on Oct. 1 at Umpquah Community College in Roseburg, Ore. when a student, Chris Harper-Mercer, opened fire, shooting and killing nine people and injuring nine others. Harper-Mercer, who is reported to have suffered from mental health issues, owned 14 guns. This tragedy was the 294th mass shooting – where four or more people are killed or injured by gunfire – thus far in 2015. A significant proportion of those shot or injured in mass shootings are victims of a domestic violence/family violence incident. The toll for women murdered by men usually with a gun in 2013 was more than 1,600, according to new study by the Violence Policy Center.
Analysis from the most recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the gender wage gap was at 78.6 percent for full-time, year round workers in 2014. The gap has narrowed only a few percentage points over the last 15 years and, as has been pointed out, if the annual earnings ratio (the wage gap) continues at the same snail-paced rate it has maintained since 1960, women’s pay will not reach parity with men’s until 2059
Analysis from the most recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the gender wage gap was at 78.6 percent for full-time, year round workers in 2014. The gap has narrowed only a few percentage points over the last 15 years and, as has been pointed out, if the annual earnings ratio (the wage gap) continues at the same snail-paced rate it has maintained since 1960, women’s pay will not reach parity with men’s until 2059
Some of us have to pinch ourselves when rising in the morning just to make sure that we are awake and not trapped in a long-running nightmare of women’s rights constantly under attack by religious, anti-woman zealots. In truth, we don’t want to wake up to a world where women’s clinics are burned or bombed, family planning services have come under vicious attacks, anti-abortion rhetoric has reached appalling new depths and the federal government is being threatened with a shutdown over funding of Planned Parenthood clinics. It’s all just too crazy and really just plain hateful of women.
Tell the Senate to vote No on the SAVE America Act.