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Former President Barack Obama with Lilly Ledbetter on Jan. 29, 2009, after signing the Lilly Ledbetter Bill. (Brooks Kraft LLC / Corbis via Getty Images)

BY LILLY LEDBETTER and DEBORAH J. VAGINS | Fifteen years ago, we stood at the White House while then-President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This law restored the rights of employees to have their day in court for ongoing wage discrimination taken away by the Supreme Court in the Ledbetter v. Goodyear case.

This bill was such an important victory for workers and gave employees who were experiencing ongoing pay discrimination their day in court.  However, the law did not give women new tools to combat the wage gap itself. Still, with all working women earning on average 77 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts—and the pay gaps even wider for women of color—it reminds us our work is still far from finished. We will not rest until we can enact more policies that give workers stronger tools to challenge pay disparities and other forms of employment discrimination.

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E. Jean Carroll leaving the Manhattan Federal Court on Jan. 26, 2024, in New York City. (GWR / Star Max / GC Images)

BY E. SCOTT OSBORNE | As Trump continued to deny the assault and denigrate Elizabeth Jean Carroll right up to the recent trial, some wondered how much money it would take to shut him up. Some suggested a financial pain point would be sufficient to deter Trump’s attacks. So now we can ask, if $5 million—last year’s award—was not enough, will $83.3 million do it?

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Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BY RED ROSENBERG | After much anticipation, the nominations for the 2024 Academy Awards were announced this past Tuesday. Here’s what the Academy got right and wrong.

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Over the past several years, we’ve made significant progress in destigmatizing mental health care. However, this de-stigmatization hasn’t reached all kinds of mental illness or all kinds of people who struggle with their mental health. Writer, researcher, and poet, Krista L.R. Cezair, and writer, activist and educator, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, join us to discuss the criminalization of mental illness on the latest UNITED BODIES. 

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