WASHINGTON - January 29 - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund hails President Barack Obama's signing into law today the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which will make it easier for workers to sue for decades-old discrimination. The law effectively remedies a Supreme Court decision that stipulated that workers only had 180 days to file a pay-discrimination lawsuit. Task Force staff attended today's bill-signing ceremony.

Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund

NEW YORK - January 28 - Older Americans have experienced huge, negative financial shifts that now make it more difficult to enter retirement with sustainable economic security, a new study finds.  Seventy-eight percent of all senior households are financially vulnerable when it comes to their ability to meet essential expenses and cover projected costs over their lifetimes.

WASHINGTON - January 27 - Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 250-177, S. 181, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a bill that restores an employee's ability to bring a claim of wage discrimination as long as her employer continues unlawfully to pay her less than her co-workers. This legislation re-establishes rights virtually stripped away by the Supreme Court case Ledbetter v. Goodyear, which denied most workers their day in court to battle pay discrimination.

WASHINGTON - January 23 - Victims of gender discrimination in the workplace won a major victory in the U.S. Senate late Thursday with the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, but some women may not be fully protected under the measure, according to Public Citizen.

S. 181, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, would restore rights taken away by a 2007 Supreme Court case, Ledbetter v. Goodyear, which in most circumstances denies workers remedies for ongoing wage discrimination. Unfortunately, several weakening amendments have been offered tonight by opponents of the legislation.

ATLANTA - January 14 - The Bush administration's last-minute report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was grossly inadequate and full of omissions, according to a coalition of human rights organizations. Instead of reporting on its implementation of recommendations issued by the Committee a year ago, the government yesterday submitted a report that attempts to whitewash the ongoing racial discrimination suffered by people of color in the United States.

WASHINGTON - January 14 - State governments have not filled the gap left by the federal government's lagging commitment to decent housing for every American, and the problem is likely to get worse as rental markets become tighter and states find themselves in ever-more precarious fiscal conditions. These are the findings of two new reports from NLIHC.