Good News…for a Change
Only 17 days are left in the 2011 legislative session so this update focuses on great things happening in the 73rd district and the Capitol. Often it is easy to get discouraged with various legislation the House is considering – some policies that I believe hurt people and our state instead of helping. But sometimes we have some good news.
Yesterday, April 12th was National Equal Pay Day – symbolizing how far into 2011 women must work to earn what men earned in 2010.
You can read my op-ed that was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch here, in the Columbia Tribune and a letter to the editor in the Columbia Missourian written by my University of Missouri intern, Jen Weisbrod.
On the subject of good news, I was unexpectedly offered the chance yesterday to have my equal pay bill, HB349 heard in the House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee before session ends. This is monumental since equal pay legislation has not moved in several years in the state legislature. Times do change.
I am indeed hopeful!
