WAGE Project Preps Female Grads for ‘Smart Start’ – A group called the Women Are Getting Even, or WAGE Project, plans these “Start Smart” workshops in conjunction with the American Association of University Women (AAUW), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. The big picture focus is on helping to narrow the gender wage gap that last year left U.S. women–statistically speaking–working until April 8 of this year to catch up with male earnings in 2013.
More join Lewis County woman’s proposed class-action suit against Stewart’s Shops – LOWVILLE — A dozen people have joined a Lewis County woman in a proposed $20 million federal class-action lawsuit against Stewart’s Shops Inc. over alleged violations of state and federal wage and hour laws.
OpEd: Women’s Unequal Lot – Decades into the discussion about how to ensure women’s equality, we have a culture that still places a different set of expectations and burdens on women and that still nudges or even shames them into certain roles. If we’re concerned about all working women, we have to talk about child care, flexible hours, paid leave. We have to talk about gender stereotypes and whether they steer women into professions with lower compensation. We have to talk about the choices that women make and which of those they feel muscled into.
OpEd: The Truth About the Pay Gap – Women are the primary or co-breadwinner in 6 out of 10 American families. That makes the economic imperative of addressing the wage gap between women and men important, as is every step President Obama can take in that direction.
Equal Pay Day Statewide Wage Gap Chart – To honor Equal Pay Day, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand crunched numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Fiscal Policy Institute. Equal Pay Day marks the date in the new year the average woman would have to work for her salary to equal a man’s salary for working the 12 months of 2013.
Student debt weighs down women more; Blame the wage gap – Women have made gains in the workplace but there’s still a wage gap. Although attending college costs the same for both genders, women are more burdened by student loan debt after graduating. They spend a higher proportion of their salaries on paying off debt because, well, they have lower salaries to work with than men – from the very start.
The gender pay gap is real, and it shows the US has a lot of catching up to do – The United States is far out of step with other countries regarding work and family policies. Long after women have become an established part of the American workforce, we still don’t have policies and social systems that make it possible to meet our responsibilities both at work and at home. Instead, each family is left to figure it out on its own, and women tend to pay the price for pregnancy, childbirth and caregiving.
Minnesota to increase minimum wage – Minnesota is set to join the growing list of states raising minimum wage above the federal level.
Could You Get By on a Low-Wage Job? – Nearly a third of all working families in the U.S. struggle to pay for their basic necessities every month. For Americans working in jobs that don’t require a college degree-minimum-wage workers at McDonald’s, sales associates at Walmart, those working multiple part-time jobs in retail-the struggle is more pronounced. In this interactive, developed by Marketplace’s Wealth & Poverty Desk, you can see for yourself how difficult it is to make ends meet in a low-wage job.
Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts – Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about — often a debt incurred by their parents — the government has confiscated their check. The aggressive effort to collect old debts started three years ago — the result of a single sentence tucked into the farm bill lifting the 10-year statute of limitations on old debts to Uncle Sam.