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Rebecca Saldaña

Rebecca Saldaña is executive director of Puget Sound Sage and she is Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project.

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Low Pay for Women of Color = More Clout Needed in Politics

By: Rebecca Saldaña | August 16, 2016

For women of color, Equal Pay Day 2016 still hasn’t come. This inequity shows how far we still have to go in gaining political representation. Our numbers are too low in U.S. Congress and even worse in state government.

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