Fact Check – Obama and ‘Equal Pay’ for Women
Editorial:
From ABC News:
Three years after he signed it into law, President Obama has made the little-known Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act the centerpiece of his re-election pitch to women.
It’s a “big step toward making sure every worker in this country, man or woman, receives equal pay for equal work,” Obama says in a video to supporters on his campaign blog.
The legislation repeatedly tops Obama’s list of accomplishments in stump speeches on the campaign trail and is cited as a fulfilled promise from 2008.
“Change is the first bill I signed into law that enshrines a very simple proposition,” Obama told a crowd of donors at the Apollo Theater Jan. 19. “You get an equal day’s pay for an equal’s day work.”
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Source:
ABC News
URL:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/fact-check-obama-and-equal-pay-for-women/
Date:
February 1, 2012
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