Kirsten Gillibrand: “If you just paid a dollar for a dollar, you could raise the…”

“If we want to have a growing economy and a secure middle class and a chance for more families to get ahead, simply pay women fairly for the work they're doing. It's really that simple. And it's a huge economic engine. If you just paid a dollar for a dollar, you could raise the US GDP by up to 4%. It's a huge economic engine. It's plain common sense and it's just the right thing to do. So Let me conclude, 50 years into the war on poverty with a deck stacked against too many in this country.” (25:01–25:08)

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