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• Highlights From the Archives Congress Relaxes Rules on Suits Over Pay Inequity By ROBERT PEAR A new civil rights bill provides women, blacks and Hispanics with new tools to challenge pay discrimination in the workplace. January 28, 2009U.S.

• News Preventing Age Discrimination

Congress must undo the damage done to age discrimination law by a recent Supreme Court ruling, and put the standards for proving such cases back on a level with other bias cases. October 13, 2009 Surveys Show

• Many Americans Prejudiced Against Muslims Americans

like to think of their nation as a bastion of liberty and equality, and while America's political principles have certainly been based upon such ideas the truth is that Americans themselves have often been willing to abandon those ideals. Today, for example, many Americans are inclined to deny equality and liberty to the Muslims neighbors simply because they are Muslims. Oct 23, 2009 |Story| Associated Press #

• Some ex-workers object to Kodak's offer to settle race discrimination lawsuits for $21.4M AP Business Writer ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) —

A group of former Eastman Kodak Co. workers objected Friday to a proposed $21.4 million deal to settle two lawsuits by black employees who maintain they were paid and promoted less than white counterparts. "We've all been...