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Joe Biden: Equal Pay For Women Is 'Common Sense'

Joe Biden: Equal Pay For Women Is 'Common Sense'

Vice President Joe Biden tweeted that closing the gender pay gap is "common sense" in honor of Equal Pay Day.

Biden posted the message along with a photo of him with the University of Delware women's basketball team:

Equal pay for equal work. It's common sense. It's also overdue. Let's close the gap & let's do it now. #EqualPayDay pic.twitter.com/BEsIsVV3eB

— VP Biden (Archived) (@VP44) April 14, 2015

Women working full time in America currently earn 78 cents for every dollar men make on average, according to the Department of Labor.

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For more on the gender pay gap, go here.

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