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athena

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9. No, it is not. It is from last Friday and is about Trump's White House.
Mon Jul 3, 2017, 12:32 PM
Jul 2017

Read the excerpt carefully. The article does NOT say that the figure is based on statistics from 2015. It says that in 2015, the pay gap was 11 cents. How do you get 80 cents on the dollar if the pay gap is only 11 cents?

The article is not about information from 2015; it is about information released last Friday:

"The average salary among men working in the White House was nearly $104,000, according to an analysis of the White House's annual report to Congress, which was released Friday. For women, it was about $83,000. That's $21,000 less on average."

This is, indeed, about Trump, who took the pay gap from 11 cents to 20 cents. The pay gap may not have been zero under Obama, but it was a lot better than it is now.

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