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Kamala Harris Wants Government to Get Involved in Determining People's Salaries
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), one of two dozen Democrats running for president, has a new campaign issue: closing the alleged gender pay gap.
"Well first of all, it is just a fact, right?" Harris told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Monday.
So the reality of it is that we don't have to debate the point, which is that on average women make 80 cents on the dollar to men. If you're talking about African-American women, that's 61 cents. If it's Latinas, it's 53 cents.
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