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It’s no secret that Americans all over the country are watching Alabama this week. The candidacy of former Alabama judge Roy Moore for the vacant U.S. Senate seat, particularly in light of appalling allegations raised by several women, has made the state the epicenter for our national conversations about not just politics, but race, the rule of law, and even basic morality.
There’s a saying that if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. When it comes to the debate over tax reform in Congress, that menu has real costs for my constituents. That’s why I went to the White House this week to sit down with President Trump on tax reform along with a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the House Ways and Means Committee. While the meeting was long on promises and short on details, I left with an important takeaway.
When we talk about the gender pay gap, most of us are already familiar with the fact that women make just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. While this remains true, not all women are even that fortunate. For African-American women the wage gap is even larger. African-American women make just 64 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts. This discrepancy is unacceptable.
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