Lilly Ledbetter

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

Doug Kendall | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Lilly Ledbetter, Antonin Scalia, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Justice Stevens, Exxon Valdez, Politics News
Doug Kendall

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

Read More: Lilly Ledbetter, Fair Pay Act, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Lily Ledbetter Act, Fair Pay, Politics News
Martha Burk

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

Read More: Work, Women, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor, Equal Pay Day, Equal Pay, Politics News
Mary Beth Maxwell

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

Read More: Supreme Court, 401(K) Plans, 401(K), Pension, Labor, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, 401k, Retirement, Sexism, Ageism, Racism, Supreme Court Labor Issues, Business News
Eve Tahmincioglu

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

Read More: Supreme Court, Alliance for Justice, Chief Justice John Roberts, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Lilly Ledbetter, Samuel Alito, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Ledbetter v Goodyear, Politics News
Bradley Whitford

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

Read More: Motherhood and Work, Single Mothers, Fair Pay Restoration Act, Pay Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Fair Pay, A Peaceful Revolution, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Living News
Nanette Fondas

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

Read More: Ledbetter v Goodyear, Pay Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Lilly Ledbetter, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Irma D. Herrera

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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