Gabriela Lemus

Gabriela Lemus is the President of Progressive Congress Action Fund and her expertise includes work on Latin American policy, international relations, immigration, and U.S. labor education.

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"Equal pay would cut poverty among working women and their families by more than half and add $513 billion to the national economy." (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Views
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
It’s Time for Equal Pay for Equal Work
April 10, 2018 is Equal Pay Day. It’s a day when organizations draw attention to the disparities in pay between women and men doing equal work. We’ll see social media posts meant to build awareness about how long it takes a woman’s pay to catch up to that of white, non-Hispanic men from the...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016
Congress Must Move Beyond Partisan Politics and Act on Zika
For the past few months I’ve observed with great concern the slow progression of a devastating pandemic. I had hoped that the whole nation would focus its attention on the health crisis as well, but it’s been a distracting year so far. The Zika virus has slowly closed in on American shores. The...
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