Dear Congressman,
As an ambitious young woman, maybe seven or eight, I always wanted to work. I always saw my parents working, as well as other family members. I realized that is how I was able to eat at night. Working in the United States during, the 2009 2010, time period, the Bureau of Labor Statistics state that unemployment was at its highest. The highest was between the months of October 2009 up until May of 2010. One may wonder why am I babbling on about unemployment and working. Well I am currently a college student at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, and as a citizen of the United States sometimes the way jobs pay males more than women in certain jobs is a type of discrimination which is against my civil liberties and I want to address it. While attending Columbus High, one of the top ten schools in the state of Georgia, I was a high school senior in Columbus, Georgia. Wanting to be independent and not have to beg my mother and father for money, I was in a drastic need for job so I could start saving money for college, as well as to learn how to budget. Luckily, with my public relation skills, I was able to land a job as a server at Loco’s Grill and Pub. As a server in Georgia you are paid 2.13 an hour, it is expected of a good server to get …show more content…
I want the Paycheck Fairness Act passed because in 2013, the United States Census stated that women working full time were paid only 78 cents to every dollar a man made. To directly apply to me, every African American woman was only making an approximate of 68 cents to every dollar a white male made working full time. This act was introduced and referred in March of 2015. The latest action done to the Act was read and reread and referred to the committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. To go back to the history books, this Act relates to the Fair Standards Act of 1938 which is also known as the Equal Pay
As an ambitious young woman, maybe seven or eight, I always wanted to work. I always saw my parents working, as well as other family members. I realized that is how I was able to eat at night. Working in the United States during, the 2009 2010, time period, the Bureau of Labor Statistics state that unemployment was at its highest. The highest was between the months of October 2009 up until May of 2010. One may wonder why am I babbling on about unemployment and working. Well I am currently a college student at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, and as a citizen of the United States sometimes the way jobs pay males more than women in certain jobs is a type of discrimination which is against my civil liberties and I want to address it. While attending Columbus High, one of the top ten schools in the state of Georgia, I was a high school senior in Columbus, Georgia. Wanting to be independent and not have to beg my mother and father for money, I was in a drastic need for job so I could start saving money for college, as well as to learn how to budget. Luckily, with my public relation skills, I was able to land a job as a server at Loco’s Grill and Pub. As a server in Georgia you are paid 2.13 an hour, it is expected of a good server to get …show more content…
I want the Paycheck Fairness Act passed because in 2013, the United States Census stated that women working full time were paid only 78 cents to every dollar a man made. To directly apply to me, every African American woman was only making an approximate of 68 cents to every dollar a white male made working full time. This act was introduced and referred in March of 2015. The latest action done to the Act was read and reread and referred to the committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. To go back to the history books, this Act relates to the Fair Standards Act of 1938 which is also known as the Equal Pay