National Equal Pay Day

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National Equal Pay Day
from Obama 2012 Blog
President Obama issued a proclamation in honor of this year's National Equal Pay Day and working women across the country:

Working women power America's economy and sustain our middle class. For millions of families across our country, women's wages mean food on the table, decent medical care, and timely mortgage payments. Yet, in 2010—47 years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963—women who worked full-time earned only 77 percent of what their male counterparts did. The pay gap was even greater for African American and Latina women, with African American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian man.

http://www.barackobama.com/news/national-equal-pay-day