Good afternoon —

I’m a reporter who covered the police beat in Baltimore. Today, I make television shows. And last Friday, my phone rang. Someone on the other end told me that the President of the United States wants to have a conversation about criminal justice policy in America.

In his effort to try to reconsider some of the sentencing excesses and the levels of incarceration that have become so problematic in America, the President wanted to discuss these issues with me — particularly because a lot of them were rooted in a television show that we did several years ago called “The Wire.” In that show, we were trying to explore what the drug war has become in America and what it was costing us as a society.

So I went to Washington earlier this week and sat down with the President. We shared our experiences, our perspectives on the drug war, and the changes we hope to see.

See what the President had to say:

Secretly, in my heart of hearts, I don’t want to be in the entertainment industry. Having been a reporter, everything after that tends to feel less rooted to reality. So the President’s call was not only astonishing, but seemed to be an incredible opportunity.

It was a candid conversation. And ultimately, a hopeful one.

I hope you’ll watch and share this with everyone who cares about improving our criminal justice system.

Because I can tell you that the President certainly does.

Thanks,

David Simon

It’s not as if women in this country only have to pay for 78 percent of our rent or mortgages.

So why do women still — more than 50 years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act — typically make only 78 cents to a man’s dollar?

Enough is enough. Until we have equal pay — or until women start getting a 22 percent discount at the grocery store or the gas pump — we’ve got to keep fighting for fairness with everything we’ve got.

Tell Congress to Support the Paycheck Fairness Act

Urge your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor this bill and support equal pay for women.

Take Action
This week Congress introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would strengthen our equal pay law, giving women the tools they need to fight pay discrimination and help close the wage gap.

Women and their families simply can’t afford to wait any longer for equal pay — not with the wage gap adding up to more than $11,000 in lost wages for women every year.

The Paycheck Fairness Act would help end wage discrimination by closing loopholes in the Equal Pay Act. It would make it harder for employers to pay women less for the same work, prohibit retaliation against employees who compare their pay, and require that employers who break the law fairly compensate the women they’ve discriminated against.

Urge Congress to support the Paycheck Fairness Act.

Thank you for taking action today.

Sincerely,
Fatima Goss Graves
Vice President for Education and Employment
National Women’s Law Center

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