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When is Equal Pay Day for social sector leaders in your state?

Candid

Equal Pay Day is a symbolic day created by the National Committee on Pay Equity to increase awareness about the gender wage gap. Specifically, this day marks how far into the year a woman must work to receive the same wage that a man received the previous year. This year, U.S. Equal Pay Day landed on March 15, meaning that women in the U.S.

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Association Brain Food: 3.17.23

Reid All About it

Join our EDI Committee and panel discuss how to keep inclusion in mind for your events and meetings moving forward. Building an Effective Audit Committee Learn how to build and use the audit committee to protect and strengthen exempt organizations. 1 CMP credit. More info/register. Host: MPI Wed 3/22 at 8 am. 1 CAE credit.

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Controversial GMO Labeling Bill Stalls in Senate

Associations Now

The chamber’s decision to pass on the measure, for now at least, leaves Vermont’s first-in-the-nation mandatory GMO labeling law untouched months before it’s expected to take effect. He implied that the Vermont bill was an initiative undertaken by organic food companies to stand out. billion each year.

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GMO Labeling Battle Heats Up in Senate

Associations Now

With a Vermont law requiring the labeling of foods that have been genetically modified about to take effect, the U.S. Pat Roberts and currently sitting in the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Committee, which Roberts chairs, would create a national labeling system for GMOs but would make it voluntary.

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Antique Groups Feel Pressure of Anti-Ivory Rules

Associations Now

Several states have already instituted bans or are in the process of cracking down on ivory sales, including Vermont. “People are having trouble connecting their grandmother’s piano with terrorism,” Vermont Rep. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) pledges to uphold.

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Maine Principals Adopt Policy for Transgender Athletes

Associations Now

“Our management committee asked staff to prepare a draft policy. ” Maine joins Colorado, Vermont, and Washington as states with transgender high school student-athlete guidelines, according to the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

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Heart Association Encourages More Colorful Eating

Associations Now

It’s about adding colorful, nutritious, and vitamin-packed fruit and vegetables to meals instead of choosing unhealthier options,” Dr. Rachel Johnson, nutrition professor at University of Vermont and past chair of the AHA Nutrition Committee, said in a statement.

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