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How Black Women's Equal Pay Day addresses disparities in pay for Black women

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Taifa Smith Butler, joins News NOW to discuss why Black women in America have to work 579 days to earn what a white man does in one year and how companies can work to combat this pay disparity and inequality.

President of Demos, a dynamic “think and do” tank that powers the movement for a just, including, and multiracial democracy, Taifa Smith Butler, joins News NOW on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day to discuss why Black women in America have to work 579 days to earn what a white man does in one year and how companies can work to combat this pay disparity and inequality.

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