“Today’s decision by the Supreme Court is a shot in the arm for Americans—especially those who need healthcare coverage the most and are least able to afford it.

The Supreme Court’s decision in King v Burwell will continue to make health care affordable for historically under-represented Americans.

Last week, copies of Jeb Bush’s “Profiles in Character” were selling on Amazon for less than $12. Today, those same used paperbacks are going for more than $500, with one mint-quality edition on the block for $2,526. Hidden market forces? Call it the HuffPo Effect.

Congratulations to Adam Zyglis, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, and his colleague  Our thanks to Zyglis, as well as his colleague Dan Wasserman (below) – for making the fight for equal pay a priority in their work.

Bustle’s recent story “Carly Fiorina’s Views On The Wage Gap Are Not As Forceful As Her Attacks On Hillary Clinton & The Democratic Party” highlighted our latest research on the wage gap and how important Equal Pay is to unmarried women and the Rising American Electorate (RAE).

While Fiorina’s solution might pull favor from the conservative base that is not in support of legislation such as the Paycheck Fairness Act, her stance likely will not garner her much popularity with a large portion of the American population.

The fight for #EqualPayNow gained a major supporter this week:

Pope Francis said Wednesday that he supports equal pay for men and women who perform the same jobs. The fact that a disparity exists, the pontiff said, is a “pure scandal.” …

… Christians should “become more demanding” for that “radical equality,” the pope added.

Equal Pay Day falls on April 14th, marking just how far into the year a woman must work to earn as much as a man. Together with Lake Research Partners, VPC has been crunching the numbers to better understand the impact this unfair pay gap has on unmarried women.

Women on average make 80 cents on the dollar for every dollar a man makes.

But this gender difference in pay is far greater for the average unmarried woman, who must work even longer to earn as much as a married man.

This week in Washington, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro are introducing the FAMILY Act, a bill that would ensure paid family leave for parents and caretakers across America.

“Current laws provide unpaid sick leave and job protection for major health events, but almost half of working mothers can’t afford to take FMLA leave because it is unpaid,” said Page Gardner, founder and president of Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund.

Research by Democracy Corps and WVWVAF

A new report by Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund suggests strategies that will help position progressives for the 2016 presidential election. The report combines findings from a national survey of 950 likely voters, focus groups with white working class voters in Tidewater, Virginia, and dial testing and on-line focus groups conducted during the 2015 State of the Union Address.

Last night, working with Democracy Corps, we sponsored dial groups of swing voters to gauge their real-time reactions to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent sat in on our dial groups and found that President Obama got his most positive reactions when he talked about specific measures to help working families:

By contrast, the call for a minimum wage hike generated a big spike among independents; the promise of subsidized child care and more infrastructure investments energized unmarried women; and the call for subsidized community college and an equal pay law generated an enthusiastic response from non-college voters (many of them women).

The dial group research (the full results of which will be available later on today) reinforces what we’ve found in our other polling and research, that working families and unmarried women — key demographics for electoral success — want their leaders to speak to the economic issues they’re facing, like the cost of college education, the need for workplace flexibility to take care of their kids, and the need for a paycheck that can actually support their families.

Thanks for sitting in on our dial groups, Greg!

White swing voters across the United States responded enthusiastically last night to the President’s State of the Union address, according to live dial-testing conducted by the Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund and Democracy Corps. The instant survey of 61 white swing voters and two follow-up online focus groups – one with white non-college educated men and women and one with unmarried women – show that President Obama’s agenda to bring America closer together as a “tight knit family” scored big.