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Joe the Plumber Vs. Lilly Ledbetter

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 11.04.2008 | Media

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When Obama mentioned Ledbetter in a debate, McCain muttered that it would create "a trial lawyers dream." He claims lawyers could take advantage of women who allege discrimination.

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John McCain's Wrong Answers to Working Women's Questions--Now Give Him Your Answer at the Ballot Box

Gloria Feldt | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

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It's time for real straight talk on how your policies affect real women, Senator McCain.

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An Open Letter to Senator McCain

Eleanor Smeal | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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Women, Senator McCain, vote on issues important to us, not on whether or not the candidate wears a skirt. The truth is, your candidacy is the worst for women in recent history.

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Obama Ad: McCain Needs "Education" On Women's Issues

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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Before the crisis in the housing and financial markets threw the presidential election for a loop, the Obama campaign had planned to spend this week m...

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McCain-Palin? 10 Reasons to Count Me Out

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Amidst the worst economic crisis in this nation since the 1930s, the prospect of a John McCain-Sarah Palin administration hardly offers much confidence for the future.

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More Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Please

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

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Her performance was so strong and so well focused that it would be foolish not to immediately send her out on the campaign trail and/or to as many television interviews as she can squeeze into her schedule.

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Friday Talking Points [46] -- Moose Poop!

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics

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Sarah Palin has already singlehandedly introduced several terms into our political lexicon. "Hockey mom" is probably the most recognizable of these. ...

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Never Done and Under Paid

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 09.01.2008 | Living

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This year Labor Day and Women's Equality Day bookend the week: a timely conjunction, since tension over what properly constitutes women's work is the crux of much of our current public discourse.

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On Labor Day, Working Women Need Straight Answers from John McCain

Gloria Feldt and Carole Joffee | Posted 08.31.2008 | Politics

John McCain, do you think women belong in the paid labor force? This might seem facetious or rhetorical, but it's a very serious, core question.

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Womens' Night at the Convention... Or Not

Mona Gable | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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In a night that was supposed to celebrate women and their achievements, why so many male speakers? Why did we get the bland white-toast Mark Warner and the anti-choice Bob Casey.

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Supreme Court Hands Exxon $2 Billion... and Progressives an Opening

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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At a time when gas prices and oil company profits are record highs, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken $2 billion from 32,000 Americans who lost their livelihood in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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Knocking Women Down - Again

Martha Burk | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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This year women working full-time and year-round are making 77 cents to the man's dollar, up only one penny from last year.

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On Equal Pay Day, Mind the Pay Gap

Mary Beth Maxwell | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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With the observance of Equal Pay Day on April 22, we mark how far into each year a woman must work to earn as much as a man did in the previous year.

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Workers Should RSS Feed Supreme Court Decisions

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business

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Many of the conservative judges on the high court may not always be on the side of workers.

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Supreme Injustices

Bradley Whitford | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics

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It's not too late to take back the Court. Supreme Court Justices may keep their jobs for life, but the person with the power to appoint them does not. Conservatives know where their candidates stand on judges. Do you?

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A Peaceful Revolution: Moms Leading on Fair Pay

Nanette Fondas | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

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When our granddaughters read their history books, this week may well be one that is marked as the beginning of the end of the pay discrimination many of their foremothers endured.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Pay Discrimination

Irma D. Herrera | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living

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A maxim of jurisprudence states that for every wrong there is a remedy -- and the Fair Pay Act remedies the injustices visited upon aggrieved workers by Ledbetter v. Goodyear.

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