Weekly Address: Ensuring Equal Pay for Equal Work
In this week's address, the President underscores the importance of ensuring equal pay for equal work and highlights the steps his Administration has taken to expand opportunity and narrow the pay gap that exists between men and women.
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West Wing Week 4/11/14 or, "Love Never Ends"
Last week, the President honored Equal Pay Day and signed two executive orders to support efforts to level the playing field for women. He also pushed for better access to skills-based high school training, hosted the Prime Minister of Tunisia, and traveled with the First Lady to the memorial at Fort Hood, and then to Austin to honor the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell Nominated to Be the Next Secretary of Health and Human Services
On Friday, President Obama announced that Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the current director of the Office of Management and Budget, would follow Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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