Economic equity news is a weekly round-up of articles by Donna Seymour of AAUW-NYS that features our core values of poverty solutions, opportunity and access, workplace fairness, healthy lives, equal pay and representation at all tables. Sign up for our mailing list to receive this directly to your inbox.
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Change for a $20: Tubman Ousts Jackson via The New York Times
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday announced the most sweeping and historically symbolic makeover of American currency in a century, proposing to replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, the former slave and abolitionist, and to add women and civil rights leaders to the $5 and $10 notes.
For many, the news of a pregnancy, even if unexpected, is joyous news. For someone who is struggling to make ends meet, an unintended pregnancy can lead to serious financial repercussions. With bans on abortion coverage, many people cannot afford the out-of-pocket cost of an abortion. The stakes are high: Someone who seeks an abortion but can’t access one is three times more likely to fall into poverty than someone who is able to get an abortion.
- Hoylman And Glick Call For Equal Pay Legislation via New York State of Politics
Two Democratic state lawmakers last Tuesday called for the passage of a bill that would require the state’s contracting authority to eliminate wage disparity. The measure is designed to have companies with 100 or more workers who want to do business with the state to public report their wage gap based on gender, race and ethnicity. With having categorical disclosure of compensation as a basis for winning state contracts would build on a current law that requires affirmative disclosure of wage gaps. It would also incentivize business to make internal improvements in its wage practices, lawmakers said.
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Young Mothers Lose Two Years’ Worth of Salary via Pacific Standard Magazine
Women earn less than 80 percent of what men take home, and the pay gap persists even after taking account of the type of work men and women perform. Now, researchers have found that young mothers face yet another pay gap: Having children before the age of 25 costs two years of income in the long run.
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Donna Seymour, who hails from the (far upstate) North Country of NYS, has spent 40 plus years advocating for children, women and family issues, equity, sustainability, and social justice issues. Currently serving as the Public Policy VP for AAUW-NYS (the American Association University Women), she is also a member the League of Women Voters, the Equal Pay Coalition, PTA, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, just to name a few.