It's frustrating that in all the media fact-check frenzy, no one ever calls out claims that the Lilly Ledbetter Act, which does nothing but transfer wealth from working-class employees to wealthy attorneys, has done anything for women other than increase their unemployment rate. Hans Bader further points out that Ledbetter herself has nothing to complain about other than her lawyers' performance.
Ledbetter again
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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