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Equal Pay Day on Tuesday reminds us of the increasing challenges facing our state and nation in ending pay inequality between men and women. As a community known for championing women, Greater Madison can lead the way to progress.
In Wisconsin, women earn 80 cents for every $1 earned by men, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. It estimates that at the current rate, women in Wisconsin will not receive equal pay until 2067.
In Wisconsin, women earn 80 cents for every $1 earned by men, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. It estimates that at the current rate, women in Wisconsin will not receive equal pay until 2067.
Wisconsinites are big on using local mortgage lenders and Summit Credit Union tops the list – both for overall mortgage lending and refinances for existing homeowners. See more on the rankings in this article from The Truth About Mortgage.
Madison has never seen anything like this.
Ambitious initiatives happening at once -- Madison Area Technical College's Goodman South campus, nonprofit One City Schools, the Urban League of Greater Madison's Black Business Hub, the Center for Black Excellence and Culture, a new Centro Hispano, and Mount Zion Baptist's Family Life Center -- promise to raise the South Side and the Black and brown experience in a city notorious for racial disparities and inequity.
Ambitious initiatives happening at once -- Madison Area Technical College's Goodman South campus, nonprofit One City Schools, the Urban League of Greater Madison's Black Business Hub, the Center for Black Excellence and Culture, a new Centro Hispano, and Mount Zion Baptist's Family Life Center -- promise to raise the South Side and the Black and brown experience in a city notorious for racial disparities and inequity.
When we use our debit or credit cards this Women’s History Month, we need to remember we only have them because of the long fight for women’s financial independence led by then attorney, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who later became the pioneering Supreme Court justice.