Let's make it "Equal Pay Day at Living Wages Day".

Happy Equal Pay Day! File that under “Things you won’t hear” on Tuesday, April 12, the date that symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.


The top Republican in the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, denigrated the bill as a political stunt. Rather than seeking an actual solution to discrimination against women, 

This Equal Pay Day, I call on all of us to take action. Just because we earn less, doesn’t mean we are less powerful, that our voices are less loud, or that our vote counts any less.