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Obama signs executive orders on pay transparency

Season 2014 Episode 980 | 10m 56s

President Obama issued two executive orders aimed at income disparity based on gender on what the White House dubbed Equal Pay Day. But Republicans charged the president and Democrats were playing politics rather than improving policy. Judy Woodruff gets two views from Ariane Hegewisch of the Institute for Women's Policy Research and Genevieve Wood of the Heritage Foundation.

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