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A New Way to Close the Gender Pay Gap

Martha Burk OtherWords
Pay discrimination based on sex has been illegal since the Equal Pay Act was passed way back in 1963. Still, the pay gap remains at 22 cents on the dollar for full-time, year-round work, and it hasn’t moved in over a decade. At that pace the gap won’t close until 2059, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. African-American women won’t meet the benchmark until August. Native American women must wait until September. And Latino women until November.

How California Hopes to Undo Trump

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
America’s mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too—and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.

Yemen: After Two Years of War A Stupendous Human Crisis Looms

Helen Lackner openDemocracy
On March 26, 2015, the Saudi-led coalition started aerial attacks on Yemen, transforming a civil war into an international conflict and a humanitarian disaster. Even as the Trump Administration moves to increase the US role in the fighting, no end to the war is in sight. There are now some 40,000 human casualties, including more than 2,500 children and 1,900 women killed directly by the air strikes. And a child dies every ten minutes from disease or hunger.

Democrats Against Single Payer

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
Single-payer health care has always been a goal of the Left. But Democrats have turned it into a punching bag.

How California Hopes to Undo Trump

Harold Meyerson American Prospect
America's mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too--and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.

Trump's NAFTA Changes Aren't Much Different from Obama's

Adam Behsudi Politico
“Mostly what I see here is the same corporate wish list and a set of international rules that work quite well for global corporations,” said Celeste Drake, the AFL-CIO’s trade policy specialist.