Tag Archive: gender wage gap
Bryan W. White
March 23, 2015
“One recent report on the gender pay gap in the Valley found that a woman with a bachelor’s degree here tends to make 60 percent less than a man with the same degree.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, Feb. 24, 2015 Summary Clinton used the wrong percentage. The Facts Former Secretary of State and likely presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave a…
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Bryan W. White
August 6, 2014
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.” Henry V, from Shakespeare’s “Henry V” Mainstream media fact checkers have done a lousy job of alerting their readers to Democrats’ deceptive gender pay gap claims. We’ll review the fact checks of the pay gap issue from FactCheck.org, the Washington Post…
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FactCheck.org, gender wage gap, Glenn Kessler, PolitiFact, PolitiFact Florida, PolitiFact Georgia, PolitiFact New Jersey, PolitiFact Ohio, PolitiFact Oregon, PolitiFact Rhode Island, Washington Post Fact Checker
Bryan W. White
May 28, 2014
“Myth: Women don’t really make less money than men in the workplace, they just make different choices.” —The Democratic National Committee, ~Jan. 2014 on its “Your Republican Uncle” website Overview Women clearly affect their incomes through their job choices. It’s less clear women make less money than men for doing the same job. The DNC apparently wants people to…
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Bryan W. White
April 21, 2014
Jack Marshall of the Ethics Alarms blog slammed Democrats for their gender wage gap demagoguery with an April 15 post. That post directly inspires this critique of Glenn Kessler’s treatment of the gender pay gap. Kessler writes the Washington Post’s fact checks as the Washington Post Fact Checker. The key deception the Democrats use on the gender pay gap issue…
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Bryan W. White
February 21, 2014
On Feb. 20, 2014, PolitiFact Oregon posted a new rating relating to the gender wage gap. PolitiFact Oregon rated it “Mostly True” that women in Oregon make 79 cents on the dollar compared to men for the same work. It was a notable rating, since other PolitiFact ratings on the gender wage gap, while not exactly a model of consistency,…
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