Subject: Re: DRAFT: Women's Leadership Forum remarks
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
Cc: Emily Aden <[email-masked]>, Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>, Mini Timmaraju <[email-masked]>, Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, Rachel Vogelstein <[email-masked]>, Jen Klein <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:25:35 -0600
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Oh, this reminds me - we should make sure she thanks Carol Pensky, founder
of WLF, and continued supervolunter, fundraiser and supporter of ours.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> I don’t think  we need all of the history on WLF, Tipper, etc..  I know we
> need to reference her but it’s long and think we can lose some of that.
>
>
>
> *From:* [email-masked] [mailto:
> [email-masked]] *On Behalf Of *Emily Aden
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 22, 2015 8:21 PM
> *To:* Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]>
> *Cc:* Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>; Mini Timmaraju <
> [email-masked]>; Amanda Renteria <
> [email-masked]>; Speech Drafts <
> [email-masked]>; Rachel Vogelstein <[email-masked]>;
> Jen Klein <[email-masked]>
> *Subject:* Re: DRAFT: Women's Leadership Forum remarks
>
>
>
> Can we change yesterday to this week (it was Tuesday) and 'more than twice
> as fast' to 'twice as fast' and then DOL addition good for research.
>
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>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Perfect. Thanks!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Ann.  I'm just going to do this, if you/Research are ok with it:
>
>
>
> Families are stretched in a million directions.  So are their budgets.
> Costs keep rising but most people’s paychecks haven’t moved in years – but
> corporate profits and CEO pay keep rising.  Quality childcare costs more
> than college tuition in many states.  The minimum wage is a poverty wage.
> Millions of Americans are held back by student debt.  And at a time when
> more women than ever are their family’s main bread winner, too often, they
> still don’t get equal pay.  Women of color earn least of all.  And just
> yesterday, the Department of Labor released new data showing that, as our
> economy gets stronger, men’s pay is going up more than twice as fast than
> women’s pay.
>
>
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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Two things:
>
>
>
> (1) Apparently, DOL did release interesting pay disparity numbers today.
> See this WSJ piece
> <http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/10/20/the-gender-pay-gap-widens-as-mens-earnings-grow-twice-as-fast-as-womens/>.
> I think it would be good to add a line that says, "Yesterday, the US
> Department of Labor released new data showing that our economy is getting
> stronger, but that increases in pay for men and women are not growing at
> the same rate. Men who work full-time saw their pay increase at more than
> double the rate of women. With more than 2/3rds of our families relying on
> the income of women to keep their families afloat, this unequal pay growth
> hurts women, our families and our economy. Equal pay must be a priority if
> we are going to have a strong economy and strong families."
>
>
>
> (2)  For the Paul Ryan paragraph, instead of "flexibility," I'd focus that
> he was asking for a fair and predictable schedule - something that our
> low-wage workers are desperate to get.  So change to:
>
> Paid family leave; schedules that are fair and predictable; higher wages
> so you don’t have to work two jobs to make ends meet, so you can be home at
> night with your kids – these aren’t just challenges for women, they’re
> challenges for America.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mini Timmaraju <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Just checked in with Megan. Looks great.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Amanda Renteria <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
> +Mini
>
>
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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all -- this is for tomorrow morning.  It really can't be longer than
> this (there are a million speakers) so please keep that in mind as you read.
>
>
>
> If you could send me edits asap, I can get them into the book.  Otherwise,
> send edits anytime tonight and I'll get them into the final.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
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