Is not the answer on discrimination. If my colleagues insist on more lawsuits, perhaps they should start their own background. According to 2014 opm study, the federal government has a substantial pay gap. The average woman along the gs makes 89 cents for every dollar earned by the average man and this gender gap can even be seen in the pay for staff working in the white house, which only pays women 87 , cents on every dollar owner earned by a man. The fact is women are smart. Women know what is best for them and their family. Many women want work balance in their life. They seek out careers that provide them opportunities. We should look at other ways we can help women besides this litigation piece. For example the working families stability act 2013 bill that would give flexibility for women to use their personal time in liue of overtime pay. Women tell us one of the things they need is more time rather than necessarily more money. Also, repealing the 30hour workweek for health care
On this deal. We get your views. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a tweet, if you would like, cspanwj, or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Your thoughtst here in just a minute about your views on Social Security and medicare. In this twoyear budget deal that was announced on monday, there were changes to Social Security and medicare. Joining us on the phone is jonathan nicholson, a reporter with bloomberg bna. Lets begin with Social Security, the disability program. What changes did they propose in this deal . Guest the thing to remember is Social Security has not just one trust fund, it is actually two. The problem is that the Disability Insurance trust fund , not beed to run low able to pay full benefits with the amount of money coming in starting in 2016, so basically to forestall that, the proposal is kind of a twostep kind of thing. One is to reallocate some of th
They have several prisons within our state that take it so that the cost for that does not come out of our per diem there. So, again, heres our creativity. As you heard, i have a long history with managed Care Organizations and whether you like them or dont or whatever, its the world we live in and they are successful. So some of the principles that those managed Care Organizations have used, we have applied in the department of corrections. The first one being and im very proud of this is called the summer of Health Care Benefits and it is the same document or a similar document that you receive when you sign up for your own insurance. It basically tells you what is or is not covered and is or is not eligible and basically, what the Insurance Company will and will not pay for, but for us, it listsous what services are eligible to the inmates and which arent and it puts everyone on the same Playing Field because the inmates understand which services will be covered and which ones are n
The different regulations are a violation of the First Amendment. This oral argument from last week is an hour. We will hear argument, first, this morning in case 13502, reed v. Town of gilbert. Mr. Courtman . Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court the towns code discriminates on its face by treating certain signs differently based solely on what they say. For example political signs may be 32 square feet, may be unlimited in this number and may be placed in the rightofway of the entire town for phi months before five months before the election. But the churchs signs can only be onefifth of that size, only placed in the dark of night the night before the Church Service. While the churchs signs with directional content are only allowed up for 14 hours other signs with directional content are allowed up for much longer. For example builders directional signs to home sales events are allowed up the entire weekend, and Homeowners Association event signs are allowed to be up for 30
Cayman islands and virgin islands, the amount of profit they attributed to these countries is in some cases 1600 more than the Gross Domestic Product of these countries. This is outright tax avoidance. Im a Small Business owner. I know many Small Business owners pay their taxes legitimately, but some corporations take advantage of these tax havens and tax laws. Specific lit one that really has gotten a lot of attention lately is this inversion process. The fact we know already pharmaceutical companies and Manufacturing Companies have been looking at this, but most recently some Retail Companies like walgreens is in the process of potentially going down this road, which would be a whole new area we havent seen taking advantage of this practice walgreens, if i understand it right, there is an estimate over five years we could lose 4 billion worth of tax revenue if they were to do this practice, which is something that i think the average person would look at as nothing more than thes not