In 1999 he tried to buy my case. We didnt get there until 2003. My case was heard in my home county in alabama in january of 2003. After a week of testimony the jury came back with a verdict in my favor. I had two women who came forward, one of them still working at the plant and at the time she took a tremendous risk, and she paid a horrific price for doing this. But she had suffered a lot of discrimination as well. And she has never gotten anything for it. The other had sold her service and have been working 22 years. She went to work for honda as a supervisor. She took a personal day and came to court and testify on my behalf. The lawyer asked her why she never complained and she said i was a divorced mother supporting a blind and handicapped son and i live paycheck to paycheck and i couldnt afford to bring up my pay. Because you see, we were all told in management but if you discuss your pay, you will not work here. Evidently, no one ever did discuss their pay. And she said that i
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 the work force, two thirds are mothers bringing home their familys earnings. In many cases women ought sold breadwinners. From wall street to walmart it doesnt matter where you work, women are discriminated in the work force and that is a very broad statistical picture of the wage gap and Lilly Ledbetter is the poster child for the wage gap whether she wanted to or not. Here is her story from her point of view and that is just one womans experience. What we did is we put a lot of information in t
Spoke at the Cato Institute of washington. This includes remarks by one paul sun, senator rand paul. Its an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im david boaz of the institute of her trying Something Different you are doing an event after work hours. Well see how that works out, but hopefully its good for people who have jobs and cant come to the events we do usually at noon. Required to have a very interesting discussion of ron pauls revolution. About 30 years ago there was a book published about the early years of the Libertarian Movement called it usually begins a timer and unless we found a cato, that most of our interns and students who came to her seminaries had first read the fountainhead. Not all of him, but more than anything else. I think you can say over the past six years, it usually begins with ron paul. As we get more people hitting their first taste of libertarian ideas and maybe then they move on to read ayn rand and cato policy studies, w
Accusations michael feline. Entrapment of the highest order. Classic abuse of power. I will be remembered in history as helping to bring this country back together. Did anybody really hire him to teach ethics . I doubt that very much. One week away from the possible government shut down. Sticking point continues to be the border wall. I am more than okay president stick to his gun. You will win. We have your back. Anything can happen anything can happen anything could happen pete ed eni had declared this a great song which it might be. Jedediah you were dancing a little bit. Ed anything can happen when jedediah is here. Jedediah i heard you were having too much fun without me so im back. Pete you are the fun police. You can amp up the fun. Yesterday jed a little dance. Ed shout out to your mom i know she is watching. Jedediah she wants her own show watch out. Lasagna is on its way. She keeps inviting everybody like a typical italian mom. Everybody, come to the house. Pete classic ed he