"National Poll Finds Overwhelming Support for Economic Proposals That Aid Women"

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-07-24 21:26

Article here. Excerpt:

'"When women succeed, America succeeds."

That was the message last week from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who, with her House colleagues, is promoting legislation to achieve pay equity for women, make child care more affordable and encourage a better work-family balance for women.

And now a new national poll by the Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund shows overwhelming support for measures to aid the nation's working women.

The poll, sponsored by the Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund and conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Democracy Corps, found that:

  • 90 percent of American voters favor policies that would help women get equal pay for equal work, and that would raise wages for women and families
  • 87 percent favor expanding access to scholarships so women can train for the jobs of the future
  • 75 percent support expanding access to affordable childcare for working moms
  • 72 percent support expanding paid family, maternity, and sick leave for working families

The poll results confirm that the vast majority of voters -- men and women -- support common-sense approaches to raise pay, benefits and opportunities for working women. Now that women are the primary breadwinners in a record 40 percent of U.S. households, helping working women is ultimately about helping American families.'

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... also had a poll and SURPRISINGLY DISCOVERED:

1. 98% of Americans think the FDA approval process should be shotened to two weeks.
2. 89% of Americans think doctors should write prescriptions for anything they ask for, w/out an office visit. In fact, of those 89%, 124% believe that no doctors should be needed at all for drug prescriptions.
3. Americans overwhelmingly support an immediate end to the laws requiring patent expiration on drugs at any time. 90% of polled respondents said they thought drug manufacturers should never suffer the injustice of a patent expiration even if it means the consumer must continue to pay whatever price the manufacturer sets indefinitely.

And you can believe all the foregoing, coming as it does from a perfectly objective party.

Ppppffftttt..... :-P to the WVWVAF and of course, Nancy Pelosi, too.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2013-07-25 02:45