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New York, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee and the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, today hailed the first hundred days in operation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), outlined the actions the CFPB has already taken to protect consumers, and urged the U.S. Senate to approve without further delay President Obama’s nominee to lead the CFPB, Richard Cordray.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), former Chair of the JEC, released a new GAO report requested by the JEC that  details the gender-wage gap among low-wage and less-educated workers. The GAO report entitled, “Gender Pay Differences: Progress Made but Women Overrepresented Among Low-wage Workers,”  shows that, on average, women with a high school degree or less earned lower hourly wages than men with a high school degree or less. Among these less-educated workers, women tended to work in industries and occupations that had lower wages than those in which men worked. The report finds that in 2000, less-educated women earned 81 cents for every dollar men earned.  By 2010, the pay gap had shrunk by 5 cents – to 86 cents per dollar.

Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney, Joe Crowley, Peter King, Charles Rangel, and Steve Israel announced that they have successfully secured a Medicare payment improvement resulting in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) receiving $28 million more each year from the federal government to provide state-of-the-art cancer care to New Yorkers. MSKCC is the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center, and one of the leading cancer centers in the United States. Due to technological and scientific advancements, which many MSKCC clinicians and researchers have played an important role, more and more cancer patients are receiving care in an outpatient setting instead of inpatient hospital stays. But payment from the federal government for this type of care has been woefully inadequate and out-of-date, creating a funding challenge for hospitals like MSKCC to advance high quality cancer care to patients.