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Two Crucial Issues' Hearings: Campus Sexual Assault, The Roles and Responsibilities of Law Enforcement. & Social Security: Still a Key Foundation of Economic Security Working for Women?
According to the Census Bureau, retired women are nearly twice as likely as retired men to live in poverty... Instead of living the worry-free ideal, they struggle to make ends meet — to pay for grocery bills and keep their homes heated in winter. And their experiences stand in stark contrast to the national trend of seniors living in the middle class." "Time and again, I have heard from far too many survivors of campus sexual assault that they have felt re-victimized by the process of trying to seek justice for the crime committed against them. This inescapable fact must be fixed," Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stated more »
Thinking of a Summer Driving Vacation? The EIA Explains What's Up — and Down — With Gasoline Prices
So far the projections for prices remaining at low or near-low price levels seem positive. EIA analysis of the petroleum market points to fluctuations in the price of crude oil as the main contributor to the large changes in gasoline prices the United States has experienced in recent years. Crude oil prices are greatly affected by levels of supply relative to actual and expected demand for the petroleum products made from crude oil. Get out that atlas! more »
The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 — "2095: The year of gender equality at work, maybe"
Iceland ranks at the top for the sixth consecutive year. Finland ranks second, Norway holds the third place and Sweden remains in fourth position; Denmark gains three places and ranks this year at the fifth position. Northern European countries dominate the top 10 with Ireland in the eighth position and Belgium (10) Nicaragua (6), Rwanda (7) and Philippines (9) complete the top 10. more »
What's The Matter With Politicians? Don't They have Families Like the Rest of Us?
Joan L. Cannon writes: My first job out of college paid $35 a week. Even in 1950, that wasn't much in New York City. I lived at home, rode the subway to work, paid for my clothes, and doctor and dentist bills, but nothing else. My granddaughter is paying for a car, beginning to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, fretting at being a burden on her parents, and afraid to take any kind of financial risk. more »