Equal wages long overdue
02.07.13: - Why do equally qualified women make, on average, just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes? Why, 50 years after Congress passed the Equal Pay Act to end the “serious and endemic problem” of unequal pay, has the gender-based wage gap only closed by less than one cent per year?
DeLauro Has Lunch at Seymour School
02.07.13: - Good nutrition is so important for kids, whose bodies are still developing and need the right fuel to enable them to perform better in school. And given the crippling obesity epidemic, the new standards are imperative to ensuring a better future for America’s youth.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro pushes tax credit for returned weapons
02.01.13: - U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Thursday unveiled her proposed SAFER Streets Act, aimed at taking “assault-style weapons” off the streets and out of the hands of criminals.
DeLauro lands $150,000 grant for opera house
02.01.13: - “Rosa hasn’t let us down,” Staffieri said, adding, “This is not the first time she has helped secure funding for the Sterling.”
Gun Tax Credit Program May Save Lives
01.15.13: - We have to take the common-sense and constructive steps that will help ensure these sorts of tragedies will never happen again.