Obama’s solution to phony wage gap is another job-killer

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President Obama insists on repeating the erroneous “statistic” that women earn 77 cents on a man’s dollar, most recently in the State of the Union address, in order to push for more required employee benefits that would turn America into Europe.

“Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment,” Obama said.

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