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The headlines are seemingly nonstop: “Wage gap is even worse than we had thought,” reads the Chicago Tribune, “Women still earn lower salaries, fewer promotions,” proclaims USA Today, and “America doesn’t just have a gender pay gap. It has a gender wealth gap,” reports the Washington Post.

This drumbeat of news regarding the divide between what men and women in the U.S. earn reflects numbers that are stunning, to say the least. Here we are, more than 56 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act, and females in this country are paid $0.80 for every dollar made by their male counterparts – this according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). For women of color, the data is far worse, with African Americans making $0.63 and Latinas $0.54 compared to each dollar paid to white men.

With a population just shy of 40 million people, California is by far the most populous state in the nation. How big is the Golden State? Consider this: California’s economy-around $2.7 trillion-is the fifth largest in the world, putting it ahead of the United Kingdom, India, France, South Korea and even Russia.

Bottom line: Californians represent a significant percentage of consumers, not just in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and cities and towns in between, but throughout the U.S. Which should give hoteliers pause when pondering this additional fun fact: California is also home to the nation’s strictest privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which comes online January 1, 2020.

An article by Dana Kravetz and Taylor Foss titled, “The Importance of Protecting Your Hotel’s IP Portfolio,” was published by Hotel Business Review on January 19, 2020.

An article by Mark Robinson titled, “Admitted VS. Non-Admitted Carriers: What Insurance Agents and Brokers (and Their Clients) Need to Know,” was published in American Agents Alliance Newsletter on September 2, 2020.