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Tracking Change

As they say, everything must change. So in the coming months, I will embrace change and pivot.

Stay tuned.

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Equal Pay Day

Hilary Rosen’s comment that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life” set off a firestorm of criticism. Rosen was quickly thrown under the bus.

Today is Equal Pay Day Women who work outside the home earn on average less than men. The Institute for Women s Policy Research reports:

Women are almost half of the workforce. They are the equal, if not main, breadwinner in four out of ten families. They receive more college and graduate degrees than men. Yet, on average, women continue to earn considerably less than men. In 2010, female full-time workers made only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 23 percent. Women, on average, earn less than men in virtually every single occupation for which there is sufficient earnings data for both men and women to calculate an earnings ratio.

Whether a woman works outside the home or is a stay-at-home mother, “she works hard for the money.”

War on Voting

Countdown to Election Day

Voting While Black

The November election is 216 days away.

The Wisconsin Republican presidential primary will be held today. Voters will not have to show government-issued photo ID -- at least not yet. The legal challenges to one of the nation’s most restrictive photo ID laws are headed directly to the state Supreme Court.

The court could rule at any time so voters should get ready. A whopping 55 percent of African American men do not have a driver’s license.

Similarly, 49 percent of black women lack an official photo ID. Among African Americans between the ages of 18 and 24, 78 percent of black men and 66 percent of black women do not have a driver’s license.

The clock is ticking.