Tell Congress: Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) Now!
It’s way past due that that we, as a country, say no to employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Please take action right now by adding your name to our message to members of Congress telling them to PASS ENDA without delay.
Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks the additional days into 2013 that a woman needs to work just to equal what a man made in 2012. The pay gap is real — and really persistent.
The amount that women lose as a result of the pay gap doesn’t just hurt them. Their families also pay the price for this lost income. Here’s what the median pay gap means over the course of just one year: $10,784. The total cost to a woman and her family over the course of her entire working life is staggering: $431,360.
Click through to check out an interactive version of this graphic showing how the pay gap affects women’s lives:
You can find all of our resources on equal pay HERE.
BOTTOM LINE: It’s 2013 and Congress needs to pass meaningful equal pay legislation like the Paycheck Fairness Act. Republicans have blocked this vital bill during the last three Congresses and it’s well past time for them to stop standing in the way of equal pay.
The 10 jobs with the biggest gender wage gap.
Rape culture claims another victim: teen girl kills herself after photo of her gang rape goes viral.
$250 BILLION in federal contracts are doled out in states with no LGBT anti-discrimination laws.
This week in sequestration nation.
GOP-led filibuster of gun violence prevention bill falling flat among growing number of GOP senators.
Sequester forcing cancer patients to travel thousands of miles for treatment.
Interactive: the game of wages.
How the GOP’s response to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s trip to Cuba highlights broken policy.
Report: 243 MILLION Americans affected by weather disasters since 2007.
The Senate is not known for moving quickly, but the past few days have seen a major sprint toward marriage equality among Senate Democrats and even two Republicans. With the evolution of two more senators, Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Tom Carper (D-DE), just today, there are now 50 senators who support marriage equality. With marriage equality-supporting Vice President Biden casting the tie-breaking vote, that means a majority of the Senate is now in favor of equality.
Exxon’s duck-killing tar sands pipeline won’t pay taxes to oil spill fund.
We know precious little about tar sands oil.
Kansas Republicans mock rape exceptions for abortion restrictions as “little gotcha amendments.”
UN approves Arms Trade Treaty opposed by Syria, Iran, North Korea, and the NRA.
GOP Congressman: If we limit high-capacity magazines, same-sex marriage will lead to bestiality.
Why the LGBT undocumented need immigration reform.
Two-thirds of Louisianans oppose Bobby Jindal’s plan to raise taxes on the poor, slash them on the rich.
Austerity pushes EU unemployment to another record high.
The president launches $100 MILLION initiative to map the brain.
Justice Scalia is worse than you already thought.
Washington doesn’t have to be broken.
Yes, the vast majority of our long-term debt is because of Bush-era policies.
GOP congressman says the debt is just as “immoral” as slavery.
Obama administration calls for marriage equality in upcoming Proposition 8 Supreme Court case.
Shocking but true: top GOP senator wants to give the NRA veto power over judges.
Another day, another extreme anti-abortion law enacted by the GOP.
FACT: low tax states have lower economic growth.
A year and a half after the landmark law expired, House Republicans finally relented and allowed the updated and expanded reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to pass. The bill had already passed the Senate with overwhelming, bipartisan majorities not once, but twice.
We say House Republicans allowed it to pass because they’ve done nearly everything in their power to block it from doing so, including:
Last time VAWA was reauthorized, in 2005, just two House Republicans voted against the measure. Sadly, 138 House Republicans voted against VAWA today. Even more shamefully, 27 House Republicans voted against both the Senate bill and the watered-down version Republicans themselves had proposed.
Take a look at these 27 Republicans. Notice a pattern?
BOTTOM LINE: Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act is a huge victory for women and their families — a victory that came in spite of the GOP’s best efforts to prevent it.
Climate change and the Arab Spring.
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President Obama urges Congress to stop the sequester — the harmful automatic cuts that threaten thousands of jobs and affect our national security from taking effect on March 1.
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