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NATION
Page 10
THE BATTALION
Monday, Jama-.
Clinton asks for $27 million to
ensure equal pay for equal work
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the
support of a women’s soccer star. Pres
ident Clinton plans to ask Congress on
Monday for $27 million to bolster fed
eral laws requiring that employers pay
men and women equal wages for equal
work.
“We want to make sure that the em
ployers and employees all understand
their rights and responsibil
ities on equal pay,”
White House Domestic Policy
Adviser Bruce Reed said Sunday.
Officials also want to beef up en
forcement of equal pay laws.
Women earn an average of 75
cents for every dollar men are
paid, a disparity Clinton has
pointed to in the past as evidence
of social injustice.
“When a woman is denied
equal pay, it doesn’t just hurt
her,” he said in a radio address
last January. “It hurts her family,
and that hurts America.’’Clinton
was being joined at a White House
event by Michelle Akers, who with her
teammates has been boycotting train
ing in a compensation dispute that
erupted after the U.S. women’s World
Cup championship last season.
“Millions of women who are work
ing for less than men don’t have the
whole country pulling for them the way
the World Cup team does,” Reed said.
“But they should.”
As part of his $27 million initiative
to close the wage gap, Clinton will seek
$10 million for the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission. Those funds
would train as many as 3,000 employ
ers about equal pay laws and 1,000
EEOC staff inspectors.
A similar, $14 million initiative
failed in Congress last year.
It would represent the first time
since the EEOC took responsibility for
“We want to make sure
that the employers and
employees all under
stand their rights and
responsibilities on
equal pay. ,f
— Bruce Reed
White House Domestic Policy Adviser
A portion of the Labor funding
would be used to help employers im
prove their pay polices and strengthen
public-private partnerships.
Additionally, Clinton vy as calling on
Congress to pass the so-called Pay-
check Fairness Act, sponsored by Sen
ate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., «hich
would strengthen laws prohibiting
wage discrimination.
The Daschlc-DcLauro legisla
tion, which failed in the last leg
islative session, would direct fed
eral agencies to c<
wage dispantie:
penalties for viol
statutes.
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enforcement of equal pay laws in 1998
that the agency had funding to train in
spectors in the area. The EEOC also
would produce public service an
nouncements on the subject.
The Labor Department would re
ceive $17 million to help train women
for jobs where they have been under
represented, particularly in the high-
technology sector, through the career
centers the department supports and
through apprenticeships.
the United States
gaming session is scheduled fc
day in Los Angeles.
Hank Steinbrecher. executiv
tor of the U.S. Soccer Federati
said that because most of the m
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piece projects, then 1001
shortly after the diagnosisi
five years ago that he had as
brain disease.
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anymore," Ms. Reagan sitt
vs as great fun, and he had it
dous sense of accomplidns
completing them.
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He looked at it. enjoyed tkji
and read the w ords out loud.
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even after aphasia had robbed
his ability to put his thoogil
words,” she w rote Aphasaitl
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television interview that Ret
longer is capable ot havingi?
sation that makes sense.
Presidential candidates prepare for Iowa caucus
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)
— Hitting every comer of this
sprawling state. Republicans
squabbled over abortion and
taxes in a fight for their con
servative base Saturday, as
presidential candidates in both
major parties braved nasty
weather to rally supporters to
Iowa’s caucuses.
“Every vote matters!” said
GOP front-runner George W.
Bush, who attempted to bur
nish his anti-abortion creden
tials for a third consecutive
day. The Texas governor
pledged to keep the abortion
plank in a staunchly conserva
tive GOP platform.
On Monday night, about 10
percent of the state’s 1.8 mil
lion registered voters are ex
pected to gather in living
rooms, schools, church base
ments and fire stations to an
nounce their support of candi
dates.
Few convention delegates
are at stake, but the real reward
in Iowa and the Feb. 1 New'
Hampshire primary is momen
tum: Campaigns can take flight
or lose altitude in the first two
contests of the presidential
year.
“We’re going to make a
good showing maybe and sur
prise a lot of people,” said for
mer New Jersey senator Bill
Bradley, the sole rival to De
mocrat A1 Gore.
The vice president holds a
wide lead over Bradley in Iowa
polls and has broken out of a
long-running tie in New
Hampshire surveys.
“I’m not quitting,” Bradley
told supporters in Maquoketa.
“We’re going forward. We
have another day.”
The vice president played
an expectations game of his
own design.
“What are the expectations
if Senator Bradley scored a vic
tory? Expectations in the event
that occurred would be that he
would do exactly what he said
he would do and take as his
Forbes, one c
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lor many caucus-gcc
model for leadership style ...
candidates st
umping the state.
tend to be more cons'
Ronald Reagan,” Gore said at
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BILL BRADLEY
DEM. CANDIDATE
Bradley’s irregular heart
beat, a minor condition that
dominated his campaign for
the better part of two days, did
not come up in a question-and-
answer session in Clinton.
The weather was more of a
problem.
A wintry mix of wind and
snow made Bradley’s motor
cade ride through eastern Iowa
a perilous one.
The plane carrying Steve
trouble in the
murky weather.
The plane
landed on the
third attempt.
Forbes emerged
safe but shaken.
| ’ “The weath
er couldn’t stop
us, and the political establish
ment is not going to stop us,”
he said
In one of the day’s more
colorful events. Sen. Orrin
Hatch of Utah gave a foreign
policy address in a barroom
full of reporters and set the
lowest of expectations for a
six-man field: “I’m going to
have to do better than sixth
here, it seems to me,” he said.
Abortion is a major issue
Bauer, who neeiis
third place to bolsa-
ging campaign. suggC“ “
Forbes is a recent conv.'
anti-abortion movema
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lateft that believed so*
three years ago and It
something different s
Bauer said.
Turning his sights
front-runner, the Was.*
activist said. "Govero'
is completely out of sit
the party he wants tola
Bush, like most Rqv
voters, is opposed toat
hut he does not stresst
campaign trail.
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general election, whd
sue tends to alienaif
swing voters.
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