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Have 2 million. When Lilly Ledbetter discovered that no Aspen Institute years at goodyear she was making 40 less than three other areas managers doing the same job. 200,000 in her career, that was not taken into consideration for retirement and social security. For women of color the it is larger. In 2010 africanamerican women were earning 67. 7 to everymans dollar and Hispanic Women 58. 7 of all mens earnings. Lilly ledbetters story is everyones story. There are sixty million working women in t...

Commuters, but the earnings may be tough this morning. Futures as you can see are mixed as have the averages been over the past several days. The tenyear note a touch higher than it was at this time yesterday. And as for europe some mild weakness in the uk and in spain. Our roadmap this morning goes, well start with coach. Shares of the luxury goods maker down big in the premarket after samestore sales in north america plunges 13 year on year. And ibm is not looking too good. Down on earnings. T...

And so in florida they go zerotolerance but in essence they turn on its head. So if they said is the same thing that theyve done in colorado, it has to law and so they pulled all the districts in those states to change the way you do discipline. And the state of maryland, and interview, you already know this, the state school board okay, the state school board did this and oppose regulations on alldistrict in the state of maryland to do the same thing. What did they do . No more misdemeanors can...

In europe and elsewhere, the scapegoating of my grants or minorities is leading to dangerous social tensions. Intolerance and hate speech continue to fester in myanmar. This year as we commemorate the tenth an resterly of the ram anniversary of the ramadan genocide, we must create conditions that support women and children. We must say yes to education and no to violence for women and girls. We must empower adolescents and youth with opportunity and employment. This year presents many chances fo...

You take all this Great Technology that we have in america today, you have physicians who are worried about being sued, of course theyre going to probably run duplicative tests. There are probably hospitals, anybody who is involved in the delivery of health care in this country knows very well about the cost of practicing defensive medicine. There have been lots of studies on it done, all of which conclude that it adds significantly to the cost of delivering health care in this country. There ar...

Senate with one year in the house of representatives and your background as a high school teacher. Absolutely, im sure by now, most folks have read in their local paper about my background growing up in poverty, right here in billings and the adversity that i experienced, most people know that i have dedicated my life to education because its the pathway to major coming the adversity that i have experienced, the experience that i have had in a working class family in the state of montana absolut...

To that . We have a we have had a Historic Program with haiti in food and health, and we have also a number of our faculty from the medical schools who are working in haiti periodically as is permitted, given the current circumstances. Curr but its important for us to doo we also have included haitian students, interestingly as a h migrant program, because as you know, many students from haiti u migrated into florida. And we have a university of Michigan Migrant Program for students from haiti. ...

Because it was cheaper and my dad paid room and board. I actually worked my way through college when i was there. I just dont remember what per credit hour costs were, but im sorry about that. Thats okay. Caller i wanted to let this wonderful president of Michigan State university know that i graduated from James Madison college within Michigan State, and it was hard, but i learned a lot. I wish i would have studied more. If theres any kids listening out there, study more in college. Wul be hap ...

Now washington journals interview with Michigan State University President lou anna simon, she talks about priorities for the university and Higher Education moving forward. Its part of our special series on universities in the big ten conference. This is 35 minutes. The cou cspan bus has been on a tour of the big ten colleges across the country for the past few weeks and along the way here on the washington journal, we haver been talking withni university t president s aboutat Higher Education ...

You say welfare reform, which is what everybody talks about first when they talk about conservative Public Policy. It was very put it was very paternalistic. It was also very decentralized. Comfortables are with paternalism when it is relatively local and can be defined differently in different places. Even if there is sentinel even if there is centralized funding behind it. Theres certainly room for that to help people with family formation and with other concerns, but they are always going to ...