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1. More than 50 years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, the gap between salaries for men and women remains a problem today.
2. Last year's study found that in the last decade the pay gap became greater the longer a person was in the workforce.
3. The United States is one of few countries in the developed world that currently uses the death penalty. Mexico, its neighbor to the south, ended the death penalty in 2005.
4. During the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr, led the civil rights movement in the United Sates. Civil rights include the right to vote, the right to a fair trial, and the right to an education.?
5. Fifteen nations make up the UN Security Council. The Security Council held its first session on January 17, 1946, in London.
