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Support The Fair Pay Restoration Act

Equal pay day is the day of the year in which women catch up to men in earnings from the year before. This year Equal Pay Day is recognized on Tuesday, April 22nd. Currently in America white women working full time jobs make on average make only 77 cents to the males dollar. For minorities the disparity is even greater. African American women earn 63 cents per dollar while Hispanic women are making a mere 53 cents on the dollar.

At WWJV4.com Summer and I strongly believe that our nation needs to recognize this difference and work to correct it. In its recent Ledbetter v. Goodyear ruling the Supreme Court made it virtually impossible for women to fight against this pay discrimination.

This ruling imposed the unreasonable requirement that women discover pay discrimination and file suit within 180 days. Sadly Pay is almost always confidential and the effects of pay discrimination are generally incurred over a long period of time. Therefore this ruling effectively eliminates any possibility of a successful legal solution to pay discrimination.

This is why we are supporting The Fair Pay Restoration Act (S. 1843) which will return women’s ability to fight for fair pay. Please join us in supporting equal pay for women by contacting your Senators and spreading the word about this bill.

Thanks.
William and Summer
WWJV4.com

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Im sure you have noticed the new look here and at several other websites. Well if you haven’t heard yet today at 8pm local time we are joining the world in turning out the lights. This is just our little way of helping to raise awareness of the global climate change issue. If you want [...]

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Every now and then a complete stranger will do something that reaffirms my faith in humanity. Most of the time I read about them in the news, or see them on television, but very rarely I have the pleasure of being personally helped out by a stranger. Most often you only hear about the big [...]

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Today is the third day of the 16 Days of activism against gender violence and I will be sharing 10 simple steps to getting involved and making a real difference. Many people are passionate about a cause but struggle to get involved because of their busy lives. I completely understand this problem. My wife and [...]

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Yesterday was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and also marked the beginning of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. I apologize for not posting this yesterday, or before, but after family left we were busy setting up the house for our Christmas tree. You can get their Take Action [...]

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According to this story on the Carpetbagger Report and backed up by BBC News the cost of the Iraq War may be almost double the official estimate! That takes the cost up to somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 Trillion dollars. Remember that billions of the “official” estimate are missing so we have to assume [...]

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In a free country the government’s most important duty is to protect the civil liberties of its people. Secondary to that is the duty to protect its people. Countries where those two duties get mixed up quickly fall to fascism and dictatorship as civil liberties are destroyed in the name of “security”. The United States [...]

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We have created a poll on the sidebar to make voting for your choice of charity easier.  For those who missed the story (you can read it here) we are donating 100% of the money made from this website for the month of October to our readers choice of charity.  Originally we planned to donate [...]

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Across the country today women are wearing red to speak out against violence towards women of color. This is a problem in our country and across the world that needs serious attention. Click here or on the image to learn more about what you can do to help. Here is what one woman, Aishah Shahidah [...]

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As you all know California has recently been struck a terrible blow by raging wildfires which destroyed some 1800 homes. If you have been following the news you undoubtedly know that the political maneuvering started almost as fast as the fires themselves, and spread even faster. Coming from a proud tradition of firefighters I know [...]