Happy Equal Pay Day from Lee Legal
The United States celebrates Equal Pay Day today. The purpose of the day, which was first observed in 1996, is to mark how long women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. On average, a woman in the United States must work about four extra months each year to earn the […]
Bridging the Economic Divide
In the United States today, economic opportunity remains sharply divided along racial and ethnic lines. President Obama has declared bridging the economic divide to be “the defining challenge of our time.” So why does an immense wealth gap persist in America, especially for American minorities? On February 10, 2016, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testified […]