PayEquity

McCain Pays Female Staffers Better Than Obama

During the Democratic Convention in Denver last month, many of the speakers made calls for equal pay for women. Sen. Barack Obama himself mentioned equal pay in his acceptance speech, and has made the call for pay equity a staple of his stump speech. But Obama's rhetoric does not match his deeds when it comes to female staffers in his his Senate office. According to the non-partisan LegiStorm watchdog group, female employees in Obama's office make on average just 83 cents for every dollar that a male staffer makes.Obama's 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of ...

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