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In his final year in office, President Barack Obama is returning to an issue that was at the heart of the first piece of legislation he ever signed at the White House: closing the gender pay gap. Obama on Friday unveiled new rules that would compel companies with more than 100 workers to provide theContinue reading “President Obama Announces Rules for Closing Gender Pay Gap”

Sometimes, state-based legislative change seems to be an incremental thing, with bills trickling through state houses across the country so slowly that a casual observer wouldn’t notice — which is often what backers of such campaigns would prefer. And then there’s the supernova approach. That’s what a coalition of progressive and women’s empowerment groups areContinue reading “Legislators organize blitz of equal-pay legislation in nearly half the states”