Stretching Your Dollar: How Transparency Can Help Close the Gender Pay Gap
The fight for equal pay continues as women are still being paid less than men on average. Noreen Farrell, executive director at Equal Rights Advocates, joined 'Stretching Your Dollar' to talk about the pay disparity between men and women, progress made in pay parity and transparency when it comes to wages.
Investors weren't jolted by the downgrade because they already know the fractured state of U.S. politics, the size of the country's public debt, and the challenges it faces to pay for Social Security, Medicare and other expenses.
The national average for gas prices stood at about $3.78 a gallon on Tuesday — about 25 cents higher than that seen one month ago, according to motor club AAA. While today's prices at the pump remain far lower than they were last year, when energy costs soared worldwide in the months following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, experts say such a jump is unusual.
