Women earn 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. That’s an accurate statistic, but it doesn’t capture the complexity of the wage gap. It doesn’t, for example, reveal that the wage gap changes over the course of careers or that some professions have really big wage gaps and others have small ones. Understanding the nuances of the wage gap is important to understanding why women in the United States still earn less than men. It helps explain how to fix the problem, too. But it requires going much, much deeper than one statistic.
A Strong Economy Isn’t Enough: 280,000 Utahns Live in Poverty and Need Help
Utah's economy is one of the best in the nation. State leaders rightly trumpet our success and rankings throughout the state and as they travel throughout the world. But this success and these rankings would mean a lot more if we were doing better to help those who...
