Why pay equity matters to Latina women
In illustrating the gap between men’s and women’s wages, data show that women still earn 77 cents to every dollar a man earns. This gender-based wage gap stubbornly remains despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963 and a variety of legislation prohibiting employment discrimination.
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Banking on the poor
What’s a fair interest rate to pay on a loan? If you think a 300 percent annual percentage rate (APR) is no big deal, you can stop reading. But if you’d be outraged to learn that some of the country’s biggest banks — like Wells Fargo, Regions , US Bank, and Fifth Third — charge exorbitant triple-d.... |
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Improving our partnership with Latin América
Last week, I was proud to visit México for the fourth time as president and to meet with Central American leaders in Costa Rica. It was a chance for me to reaffirm our friendship with a region to which tens of millions of immigrants and Americans trace their roots.
It was also an opportunity to h.... |
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Victims of foreclosure fraud can’t cash checks
Could federal regulators and their cast of private contractors possibly do a worse job of getting relief to families who were wronged during the foreclosure crisis?
First, private contractors botched their initial review of banks’ foreclosure files. Then, the Office of the Comptroller of the Cur.... |
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Foreclosure review payment agreement underway
Rust Consulting, as the Paying Agent for the Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement, has began distributing payments to borrowers on April 12, approximately 1.4 million payments were sent.
Some early payment recipients were told that their checks could not be cashed due to insufficient .... |
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Foreclosure review payment agreement underway
Rust Consulting, as the Paying Agent for the Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement, has begun distributing payments to borrowers. On Friday, April 12, approximately 1.4 million payments were sent.
Some early payment recipients were told that their checks could not be cashed due to ins.... |
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A plateful of justice
When my father immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the mid-1980s, his first job was washing dishes at a Furr’s Fresh Buffet restaurant in New Mexico. It paid the state-mandated minimum wage of $2.90 per hour.
My father sent a portion of his scant earnings back to his parents and younge.... |
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Stranded on the wrong side of digital divide
A major national campaign was launched recently to bridge the digital divide. Everyone On is the public service arm of Connect2Compete (C2C), a national public-private partnership that hopes to provide Internet access, digital literacy training and refurbished computers to low-income consumers.
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Why Obama must meet the GOP lies directly
The White House apparently believes the best way to strengthen its hand in the upcoming “sequester” showdown with Republicans is to tell Americans how awful the spending cuts will be, and blame Republicans for them.
It won’t work. These tactical messages are getting in the way of the larger truth.... |
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The meaning of a decent society
Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 should be a no-brainer. Republicans say it will cause employers to shed jobs, but that’s baloney. Employers won’t outsource the jobs abroad or substitute machines for them because jobs at this low level of pay are all in the local personal service sector (.... |
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Beginnings and endings: My journey
It has been an honor to be your Secretary of Labor. As I prepared to say farewell, I decided that I wanted to share my experience through journeys, and through beginnings and endings, because that reflects what’s in my mind, and more importantly, what is in my heart at this present moment.
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Push to protect families, stop budget cuts
Emphasizing the ongoing unemployment crisis and dwindling resources for vital programs that serve Latino children and families we commend President Obama’s call in the State of the Union address to stop the automatic budget cuts that are scheduled to take effect on March 1, 2013.
Preventing mor.... |
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Wage theft across borders
As discussion mounted over the issue of an expanded guestworker system in an immigration reform package, a company connected to former Secretary of State Colin Powell found itself in hot water in connection with the employment of Mexican workers in the U.S.
U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh rece.... |
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Immigration reform won’t increase government spending
Just days after a bipartisan group of Senators released a set of principles to reform the immigration system with a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million undocumented residents, House Republicans convened a hearing to consider the benefits of immigration reform. The stacked witness li.... |
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Foundation, nonprofits launch MyFreeTaxes
The Walmart Foundation donated $4.16 million to Goodwill Industries International, National Disability Institute and United Way Worldwide in support of the MyFreeTaxes Partnership, offering free federal and state tax preparation and filing services both online and in person to eligible Americans n.... |
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