The president wasn't lying when he said he'd do whatever he could to help middle-class families on his own. This Tuesday, with Lilly Ledbetter by his side, he'll sign an EO that prevents federal contractors from retaliating against employees who inquire about the salaries of their coworkers; basically the Paycheck Fairness Act for contractors. In addition to that, he'll ask the Dept of Labor to draft new regulations requiring all contractors to report salary data and, crucially, to include gender and race breakdowns.
If you add this to the minimum wage EO and the re-writing of overtime regulations, what you have is pretty substantive change, and there's nothing Republicans can do about it. Keep em coming Mr. President!
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