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Nationwide, working families lose $200 billion of income annually to the wage gap. Many want to finally put a stop to all of this. Many women feel that it’s not like they get charged less for rent or food or utilities. In fact, they pay more for things like haircuts and dry cleaning, and so on. Over a life time of work, the 26 cents-on-the-dollar women are losing adds up. The average 25-year-old working woman will …

…made significant strides into the mainstream of the American workplace. But lingering unequal pay robs women and their families of economic security, doubling poverty rates for today's workers and threatening reduced retirement income and greater poverty tomorrow. There are three clear routes to ensuring that women receive equal pay: vigorous enforcement of current equal pay laws, passage of stronger and better equal pay laws and greater protections for workers' right to organize together into unions.