Updated comment: Last night (Jan 28,2014), Obama made a huge deal out of wage inequality for women. Besides this chart and the fact that he pays his female staff members less than his male staff members, on average, we have the Lilly Ledbetter Act passed in October of 2009. That was billed by the Dems as THE solution to wage inequality. Last night, to hear Obama talk, nothing has been done to right this so-called wrong. I ask: "If Lilly Ledbetter" did not address and solve this problem, whose fault is that other than the Democrats. It was their bill. They could have written into this bill any and all solutions necessary to solve the problems he mentioned in his 2014 speech. They did not. Why? Hint: the answer has to do with election strategies.
A new Employment Policies Institute (EPI) analysis shows that the vast majority of the bill’s sponsors are legislating with a “do as I say, not as I do” approach: Fully 96% of the House and Senate sponsors of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 do not pay their interns. In other words, the same Members of Congress who are supporting a 40% wage hike on private sector employers are simultaneously failing to provide any wages to their own employee interns.
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