Congratulations, House Republicans!

How much of your health insurance does your employer pay?

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In any case, abortion is not murder.

When it is done because the parent does not want to be bothered or pay for the irresponsible action that bought the pregnancy about, or the child is the wrong sex it is murder.

we are discussing legal abortions.

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we are discussing legal abortions.

No problem, legal murder. Sharia law has that, and it doesn't approve of abortion.

Legal murder is an oxymoron.

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Legal murder is an oxymoron.

Executions are not legal?

.no, executions are not legal.

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.no, executions are not legal.

You better call Texas.

The White House #WarOnMath: Women do not make 77 cents on a man’s dollar

This Equal Pay Day, even the White House can’t defend its frequent assertion that women make 77 cents on a man’s dollar. Why? Because it’s completely untrue. But hey, War on Women and all that, so you’re going to be hearing it anyway. So in the spirit of this new age of the VoxSplanation, here are some key facts and some good links that I gathered over the years — mostly from reading and editing former Labor Department economist and columnist labor economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth – on how to debunk the mythical gender pay gap.

First of all, if you actually do the math on weekly earnings, the 77 cent number is just outdated. Women who worked “full time” in 2013, according to easily retrievable BLS data, made 82 cents (not 77 cents) for every dollar earned by men working full time ($706 per week versus $860).

But this is also an inapt comparison, because “full time” includes people working as few as 35 hours a week and as many as…well, as many hours as one can work in a week. Surely, we shouldn’t assume discrimination is at work (and discrimination laws are the answer) if some or all the pay gap is the result of differences in hours worked. Again, according to BLS data, the average woman working full time works 94 percent as many hours as the average man working full-time. (The “hour gap” gets slightly larger if you only consider, say, workers over 25.) Once you account for the “hour gap,” full-time working women make 87 percent what men make for the same amount of work.

For what’s left of the gap, before we assume employers are deliberately paying women less because they’re evil, we should factor in other things that put women at a disadvantage. To name just two that various legitimate studies incorporate, there are career interruptions (mothers are far more likely to suffer these than fathers) and then occupational/educational choices. If women are less likely to choose the most lucrative college majors (they are), or more likely to leave the workforce for a time to raise children (also true), they’ll end up making less money than male counterparts who don’t do those things, even if employers don’t discriminate at all.

Depending on how conscientious you want to be about comparing apples to apples, such factors will narrow the gender pay gap to 6.6 cents (a famous American Association of University Women study got that number — and hid it in the fine print of their study) or, as Furchtgott-Roth often argues, you can narrow it to almost zero.

There are probably things we can change in the world that would reduce pay inequity — namely, removing whatever drives young women away from more lucrative career tracks, etc. But that has nothing to do with workplace laws governing compensation or opening employers up to more lawsuits. The upshot here is that Equal Pay as a legislative agenda is just an excuse for not having a legislative agenda, not a solution to a real problem.

Oh, and of course, as the image above notes, the Obama White House does not pay women the same as men, either.

But abortions are not executions...and they are not murder.

Re: parados (Post 5630020)
My employer pays about $700 per pay period for my insurance plan.

is birth control murder as well?

Money that could have been in you paycheck if you had ACA.

Why are you so blind? Why don't you check out the ACA????????

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But abortions are not executions...and they are not murder.

No they are not, people executed in this country are found guilty by a jury of 12 people, not just one selfish irresponsible woman like the baby is.