The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is back

As the presidential campaign waned and the economic meltdown waxed, the candidates did their best to demonstrate an ability to empathize with America's Everyman -- the regular Joe, the working stiff. John McCain had Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, and Barack Obama had a working woman who had been stiffed: Lilly Ledbetter.

January 10, 2009