Andrea Hsu
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For the second year in a row, women have lost ground.
Women working full-time year-round earn 81 cents for every dollar men earn.
That's down three cents over the past couple years.
Now, the latest data compiled by the Census Bureau is actually from 2024.
So the widening of the gender wage gap can't be explained by anything that's happened since President Trump returned to office.
And in fact, former President Biden was supportive of pay equity efforts.
What the Census Bureau did find was that the median wage for men increased by just over 3.5%, while women's wages remained stagnant.
The gender pay gap is even wider for women of color.
Black women's equal payday will be marked in July, Latina equal payday in October.
Early this year, the Office of Personnel Management launched a new data tool on its website.
There you can see how many federal workers have come and gone from federal agencies.
According to the latest update, since January 20, 2025, there have been close to 387,000 departures of federal employees and 123,000 additions.
That represents a net loss of about 11.5% of the federal workforce.
The Treasury Department has seen the most separations of any one agency.
The VA, along with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, saw the most hires.
To be clear, this lawsuit is not about the Coca-Cola company.
It's about Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, which bottles and distributes soft drinks throughout the Northeast.
According to the lawsuit, the New Hampshire-based company held a networking event at a casino in Connecticut in 2024 and invited only female employees.