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Kamala Harris has introduced the LIFT Act, which functions as an expansion of the earned income tax credit and provides a monthly cash payment for middle class households, legislation that she’s said would directly benefit African Americans. She’s also introduced a bill that would address the racial gaps in maternal mortality rates, in part by providing grant funding for doctors and nurses to receive implicit bias training. And Harris says she backs a study that would examine how Congress might approach reparations for the descendants of slaves.
At a town hall on Monday, Harris emphasized women of color while discussing the need to close the wage gap.
“Women are paid on average 77 cents to the dollar. And then if you look at African American women and Latinas, even less, and for doing the same work,” she said.
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