like her daughter isabella. they live with dirt floors, walls made of slats. does the best she can with what little she has, worries it may not be enough to save her severely malnourished baby girl. what do you fear most for your baby? for millions, this is life. it boils down to one thing. survival. the climate crisis fueling the crisis at the u.s. border. hundreds of thousands so desperate, they re manging a dangerous trek north. like darwin mendez. he tried to cross three times. now owes smugglers nearly $30,000 in a country where most people make $6 a day. he says he will try again, he can t support his families with crops now practically bare. for so many, it is a choice between starvation and migration.
daughter isabella. she lives in this room with her three children, dirt floors, walls made of slats. she says she does the best she can with the little she has but worries that still may not be enough to save her severely malnourished baby girl. what do you fear most for your baby [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: for millions of guatemalans, this is life boils down to one thing, survival. the climate crisis is fueling the crisis at the u.s. border. hundreds of thousands so desperate, they re making the dangerous trek north like darwin mendez he tried crossing three times. he owes smugglers nearly $30,000 in a country where most people make $6 a day he says he will try again because he can t support his family with his crops, now practically bare [ speaking foreign language ] for so many, it is a choice between starvation and migration. [ speaking foreign
need to help starving children. these women walked miles to be here so their babies could be monitored. malnutrition has severely stunted their growth. like her 13-month-old daughter, isabella. she lives in this room with her three children, dirt floors and walls made of flax. she said she does the little she can with what little she has but worries that it may not be enough to save her severely malnourished baby girl. what do you fear most for your baby? for millions of guatemalans, this is life. it boils down to one thing. survival. the climate crisis fueling the crisis at the u.s. border. hundreds of thousands so desperate, they re making the dangerous trek north. like darwin mendez, he tried crossing three times. he now owes smugglers $30,000, in a place where they make $6 a day. he ll try again because he can t support his family with his
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The gender pay gap, persistent and global, is an evident structural economic injustice and despite widespread agreement that it deserves immediate remedy, it is proving annoyingly difficult to solve.
For almost 60 years, since President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, it has been illegal in the United States to pay men more than women for doing the same job. And yet in 2020, women earned 82.3 percent of what men did in all jobs combined. Put another way: In the United States, women, who make up about half of the population, earn only 40 percent of the gross domestic product. And in the last 25 years, the gender pay gap in the United States has shrunk only eight percentage points.