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On the recordFebruary 12, 2019
By addressing the problematic loopholes in current law, by empowering workers to better detect and combat wage discrimination and by creating mechanisms for better pay data transparency we can restore the original intent of the Equal Pay Act and finally after all these decades make equal pay for equal work a reality.
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Suzanne Bonamici
Democratic · Oregon

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Bonamici calls for reforms to ensure equal pay for equal work.

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