$BILLIONAIRE Tax Bandits?
Billionaires Seize $Billions Letter to Editor – Hartford Courant April 3, 2022
Tag: gender inequality
CHARTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
13 Charts From 2019 That Will Blow Your Mind Economic Policy Institute See All the charts here
Raise the Pay for our Most Important Workers!
Let’s pay preschool educators a worthy wage ..AFT Follow May 1 · By Tammy Duckworth I know firsthand the difference a teacher can make in a student’s life. When I was a child, my dad lost his job — and all too quickly,…
WOW! 1/2 $$$ Trillion Less Pay For Women
Women lose $513 billion a year in wages due to gender pay gap and math is worse for some —Charisse Jones, –USA TODAY– Oct. 23, 2018 | (Photo: Getty Images) Women experience $513 billion in lost wages a year because of the…
Sickening Inequality — CT 3rd Most Unequal State!
Connecticut in Crisis: How inequality is paralyzing ‘America’s country club’ The state is caught in an economic straitjacket and there’s no easy way out By Jared Bennett July 26, 2018 –Center for Public Integrity Main Street in Bridgeport, the largest city in…
Maternity Leave — Unions Help You Get It!
Labor Unions Help Employees Take More Paid Maternity Leave Union-represented working mothers are at least 17 percent more likely to use paid maternity leave than comparable nonunion working mothers Facilitating working mothers’ use of paid maternity leave is a key…
ACA REPEAL THREATENS LIVELIHOOD OF HOME CARE WORKERS
Home care workers have our lives in their hands. They’re paid only $10 an hour by Sarah Jaffe, The Guardian, Jul 14 2017 Read the article — here’s a summary: Although home care workers have begun to…
Expensive Day Care Driving Women From The Work Force?
Why are so many women dropping out of the workforce? By Natalie Kitroeff — Los Angeles Times — May 28, 2017 Mari Villaluna never wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. The 36-year-old spent a decade building up a resume as a…
Why should the poor languish in jail? Bail reform passes!
Bail reform wins final passage in Senate By: Mark Pazniokas and Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror Bail reforms intended to ensure that indigent defendants are not jailed simply for lack of resources won final passage in the Senate early Wednesday…
Help My Employees — Please Enact Paid Family Leave in CT
By Todd Szoka owner of: Sunshine Cycle and Run, Colchester — CT Mirror ViewPoint — As the owner of a small business in Colchester, I support paid family and medical leave as a critical safety net that will support workers…