Bill Text: IL HR0697 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges Congress to pass legislation to reduce gender pay inequality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0697 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0697-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Approximately 40 million people, or 12.3 percent | ||||||
3 | of the U.S. population, were living in poverty as of 2017; 2016 | ||||||
4 | Census figures show 5.8 percent of the U.S. population lives in | ||||||
5 | deep poverty with an income 50 percent below the federal | ||||||
6 | poverty line; and
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7 | WHEREAS, In 2017, 21.1 percent of African American | ||||||
8 | households and 18.3 percent of Hispanic American households | ||||||
9 | were living in poverty; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Women account for nearly two-thirds of all minimum | ||||||
11 | wage workers in the U.S.; one in eight American women, | ||||||
12 | approximately 16 million, live in poverty or are on the brink | ||||||
13 | of it, and American women are 35 percent more likely to be poor | ||||||
14 | than American men; and
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15 | WHEREAS, The 2018 Census Bureau found that 58 percent of | ||||||
16 | children in poverty are from single mother households with 35 | ||||||
17 | percent of single mothers falling below the level of poverty; | ||||||
18 | any unplanned expense, health emergency, or reduction in work | ||||||
19 | hours or pay can push many female led households over the | ||||||
20 | brink; and
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21 | WHEREAS, According to a study by the Institute for Women's |
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1 | Policy Research, white women made only 81.1 cents on the dollar | ||||||
2 | and African American women only make 65.3 cents on the dollar | ||||||
3 | when compared to men doing the same work in 2018; and
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4 | WHEREAS, The National Women's Law Center found that African | ||||||
5 | American women work nearly 20 months for the amount of pay | ||||||
6 | white men make during the calendar year; and
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7 | WHEREAS, A woman's percentage of pay will drop from 82 | ||||||
8 | percent to 69 percent of their male counterparts' earnings over | ||||||
9 | the course of ten years after having graduated college; and
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10 | WHEREAS, A woman with a master's degree and working a | ||||||
11 | full-time job earns 75 cents on every dollar earned by a man | ||||||
12 | with a master's degree and working a full-time job; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Almost 60 percent of working women would earn more | ||||||
14 | if there was pay equity, and nearly 65.9 percent of working | ||||||
15 | single mothers would receive a pay increase; and
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16 | WHEREAS, A 2017 study by the Institute for Women's Policy | ||||||
17 | Research found that providing equal pay to women with similar | ||||||
18 | education and hours of work as their male counterparts would | ||||||
19 | cut poverty among working women by half, and, remarkably, this | ||||||
20 | is true whether women are married, single mothers, or single | ||||||
21 | women living on their own; and
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1 | WHEREAS, The same study found that gender pay equality for | ||||||
2 | women would generate $512.6 billion in additional income for | ||||||
3 | the U.S. economy, which is comparable to 2.8 percent of the | ||||||
4 | gross domestic product from 2016; and
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5 | WHEREAS, The American Association of University Women | ||||||
6 | found that half of all states pay women less than 80 percent of | ||||||
7 | what their male counterparts make; therefore, be it
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8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
9 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
10 | we urge the United States Congress to take additional steps | ||||||
11 | towards reducing gender pay inequality for all Americans | ||||||
12 | because when men and women are paid equally for equal work the | ||||||
13 | U.S. economy is improved, and the poverty rate for working | ||||||
14 | women is cut significantly; and be it further
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15 | RESOLVED, That we urge Congress to reintroduce and pass | ||||||
16 | legislation that will promote gender pay equality, thus helping | ||||||
17 | to increase economic self-sufficiency among women; and be it | ||||||
18 | further
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19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
20 | presented to the President of the United States, the Vice | ||||||
21 | President of the United States, all members of the United |
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1 | States House of Representatives the United States Senate, and | ||||||
2 | all members of the Illinois General Assembly.
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