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Democrats are hoping to push through legislation aimed at reducing the gender wage gap Tuesday Equal Pay Day. But it faces an uphill battle in the Senate, which took up the bill Tuesday.Our economy can only s stanley cup ucceed if women can succeed, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said during arguments on the Senate floor.Economists say, while a good step forward, the legislation if passed would not eliminate pay disparity, which is created by a number of issues deeply ingrained in American culture.Equal Pay Day, which the National Committee on Pay Equity has marked annually since 1996, symbolizes how far into stanley cup the year stanley cup a woman would have to work to earn as much as the average man earned the previous year.Depending on which data is used, women who work full-time on average make about 81 percent of what men make, taking into account the fact that women tend to work less overtime and have lower-paying jobs. Pew Research calculates the figure slightly higher, at 85 percent. The disparity is larger when race is taken into account: Black women make 65 percent of white mens earnings and Hispanic women make less than 62 percent, according to the Institute for Womens Policy Research.The Paycheck Fairness Act, which the House of Representatives passed last week largely along party lines, aims to close that gap. It is about giving women the power to gain economic security for themselves and their families, said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said at a news conference Tuesday Cmwz Firm recounting Arizona ballots wants methods kept secret
ANKARA, Turkey 鈥?The United States on Friday pressed Turkey to harden its borders against fighters and funding stanley cup flowing to the Islamic State militant group, and sought clar airmax ity on how far Ankara is willing to go to help a worldwide coalition destroy the insurgent threat.Turkey sits on the front line of the extremist group battleground in Iraq and safe haven in Syria and already has assisted refugees and cracked down on suspicious cross-border traffic from both countries. But Turkey has resisted publicly endorsing a new global strategy to defeat the Islamic State, which has kidnapped 49 Turkish citizens, including some diplomats.At the start of a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu cited challenges and threats in Iraq and Syria.He did not mention the Islamic State by name and did not respond to a shouted question about why Turkey refused, a day earlier in Saudi Arabia, to join the U.S. with a coalition of Mideast nations that pledged to curb the extremists ; resources, repudiate their ideology, provide humanitarian aid to its victims and potentially contribute to a military campaign.It was the third meeting so far this month between Kerry and Cavusoglu, who al stanley cup so together participated in talks during the annual NATO summit in Wales and this week in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, about the Islamic State threat. Kerry said the two men also will chair a counterterrorism forum at the United Nations General Assembly a |
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