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Barack Obama: “The typical woman working full-time all year in the United States only earns 80 percent of what a typical man working…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2016
The typical woman working full-time all year in the United States only earns 80 percent of what a typical man working full-time all year earns.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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