A severe injury has taken you out of the workforce, and, now, you are worried. Your family depends on your income to keep the household running. While you have been diligent in creating an emergency fund of six months' expenses, you prepared in another important way....
Month: June 2020
Study: Milwaukee’s gender pay gap persists
Though Milwaukee's gender pay gap is narrowing, men continue to outearn women here, just as they do across the nation.That's according to a recent report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum, commissioned by the Women's Leadership Collaborative.The study states that in...
Making sure you get long-term disability benefits
Long-term disability insurance is in place to protect workers and provide the financial support they need to pay for medical costs and living expenses if unable to work due to serious ailments. A medical emergency such as heart surgery, a traumatic brain injury from...
SCOTUS: gay and transgender employees are protected by Title VII
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a watershed ruling that federal law prohibits workplace discrimination against gay and transgender employees.The 6-3 decision means that gay and transgender workers are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...
Ending workplace racial discrimination is part of the struggle for justice
In the wake of the death of George Floyd while in police custody, protesters have for days taken to the streets of Milwaukee and other major American cities to demand an end to racial injustice. The strength in numbers and the persistence of the protesters has...
What the world needs now . . .
Today's riots mark one more turning point for the civil rights of all Americans. On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on the most pressing domestic issue of that day and today: the struggle to affirm civil rights for all Americans....