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Speaking on the House floor, Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth of Kentucky called on Congress to update the 1963 Equal Pay Act and guarantee pay equity for women in the workplace.
Yarmuth: “It was only because there were so many people who determined this was in the long-term best interest of both states and our collective communities that nobody gave up.”
“Louisville is a national leader in the revitalization of American manufacturing, and the Kentucky Manufacturing Career Center will help us continue to build on that progress,” Yarmuth said. “Connecting workers with good jobs and employers with a well-trained workforce will help Louisville families succeed in the 21st-century economy.”
The scientists' peer-reviewed research was damning: mountain top removal, the practice of clearing mountaintops of trees and topsoil and then blasting them with explosives to reveal the coal seams underneath, is polluting the Appalachian watershed decreasing organism diversity, increasing flooding and contaminating groundwater.