An interesting article on the equal pay issue. The diagrams show clearly just how much our overall wages haven’t changed, and women still make less:
Closing the gap for equal pay
Equal pay for equal work is supposed to be the law, but hurdles remain for women
By Colleen O’Connor
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 10/12/2008 01:02:08 AM MDT
Colleen Abdoulah, CEO of WOW Internet-cable-phone, has fought multiple times for equal pay. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post )
More than four decades after the Equal Pay Act made it illegal to pay men and women different wages for the same work, the fight over equal pay rages once again.
The DNC did this! A deadly, right-on article about money, the social compact and the loss of the Congressional Black Caucus:
Crisis Will Test American – and African American – Social Compact
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=816&Itemid=1
We were all talking about it. Sure enough even the SFGate has noticed the silence:
Once-hot issue of immigration barely mentioned on campaign trail
Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer
Just a year ago, immigration was a volatile political issue that consumed Congress and ignited passions among Americans on both sides of the debate. These days the presidential candidates barely mention the topic on the…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/12/MN2D12UGI6.DTL
Well great, maybe? I sure hope North Korea isn’t accepting any melamine milk or methamidophos laced rice as part of this exchange. Who or what aggie inspectors are in this negoiation mix? Trust, on both sides, is earned.
Is North Korea set to come off US terror-sponsor list?
Report says it could happen today, but Japan opposes the plan.
from the October 11, 2008 edition
New reports indicate that the US could remove North Korea from the list of nations supporting terrorism very soon, resolving a key issue in convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. But Japanese resistance to the deal may put it on hold.
The Times of London reports that the US could be set to announce North Korea’s delisting as soon as today.
Did you get a chance to see what Senator Clinton had to say about homowner help?
October 6, 2008
Senator Clinton Joins Housing Advocates to Renew Call to Help Homeowners Hit Hard by the Economic Crisis
Clinton Outlines Next Steps Needed to Reassert Oversight & Achieve Broader Economic Reform
NEW YORK, NY – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was joined at a press conference today by economic development and housing advocates at ACCION New York and New Jersey, a microlender that serves small businesses with loans and financial counseling, to outline the next necessary steps that will help homeowners who have been hit hard by the mortgage and economic crises. Senator Clinton renewed her call for additional action to curb the current economic crisis, put in place new regulatory oversight, and enact broader economic reforms to prevent the crisis on Wall Street from impacting Main Street. …]
http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=304197&&
Then there is one bank that is trying to do something about the current house mess. Maybe you need to talk to them?
Bank of America Announces Nationwide Homeownership Retention Program for Countrywide Customers
Nearly 400,000 Countrywide Borrowers Could Benefit After Program Launches December 1
[CALABASAS, Calif., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ — Bank of America today announced the creation of a proactive home retention program that will systematically modify troubled mortgages with up to $8.4 billion in interest rate and principal reductions for nearly 400,000 Countrywide Financial Corporation customers nationwide….]
http://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=8272
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