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Cassandra Welchlin, the executive director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, says that women have been the “essential workers” of the pandemic. Mississippi has no law to protect their right to equal wages. Photo courtesy Cassandra Welchlin Campaign

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‘Women are the Essential Workers’: Mississippi Senate Labor Committee to Revisit Equal Pay Issue

Mississippi is the only state in the union with no equal pay law, but the Mississippi Senate’s Labor Committee took up the issue once again on Sept. 29, hosting a …

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