lilly leadbetter fair pay act
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Democrats take aim at stubborn state pay inequity with raft of new bills
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Democratic lawmakers and supporters Thursday unveiled a suite of legislation aimed at closing the gender gap in salaries in Colorado on the seventh anniversary of the federal Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Speakers pitched the bills as long overdue, saying the state had been trapped in a discriminatory past that was hobbling the economy and…
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Speaker Hullinghorst blasts ‘extreme right’ anti-abortion legislators
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House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, unloaded on state Republican lawmakers Tuesday for continuing to attempt to limit access to abortion in Colorado, saying the drive to strip women of the right to make their own medical decisions was having a corrosive effect at the Capitol. “I think we’re all gettin’ a little tired of…
