Six-Year Old Kid Asks Hillary What She’ll Do About Income Inequality

‘We still have problems, and if you deny those problems, you are denying the fastest way to increase incomes in America’

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CLINTON: "You have a whole team that is giving you a chance. Go ahead. I really do love to call on kids. That's what this election is actually all about, is their future." [Applause]

UNKNOWN GIRL: "My name is ..., I'm from Massachusetts. My mother is complaining that she does not get much more money than my father. [Laughter] [Applause] My mother is an engineer. A teacher. My father is the engineer. I think that my mother is working more harder than my -- [laughter] [Applause] I don't know my grammar. I think my mother is working much harder -- more harder than my father. And she deserves to have more money. Like, get more money than my father. [Laughter] Because she is taking care of children and I just don't think it's fair. Hillary Clinton: That is really so sweet." [Applause]

CLINTON: "You have a great future as an advocate. I do think equal pay for equal work is still a problem. I think the paycheck fairness act, which I supported every year came up when I was in the Senate, is really important to try to open up the pay arena to more transparency. Because right now, if you are doing a job and you ask how much somebody else makes, you can be fired or retaliated against. How are we ever going to know that we get fair pay for not just women, although that is the biggest discrepancy, but particularly, people who are in positions where it is hard to ask for more because of their working conditions. I had a young man here in new Hampshire tell me the reason he was supporting me was because I was in favor of equal pay. I asked him why, he said because he got his first grown-up adult job when he was 17 years old. He went to work in the same store where his mother has worked, and that's how he got the job. He brought his paycheck home and showed his mother and he watched her face fall. She said you are making more now than I am making after four years on the same Jo. I asked him what was the reason. He said I tried to find out and the manager said we like to identify young men who can go far in the company, we want to give you the incentive just ama and maybe get into one of our training programs. He said they never asked my mom, and she is much more organized than I am. We still have problems, and if you deny those problems, you are denying the fastest way to increase incomes in America. And that is to make sure women are paid what they deserve in the job they do."

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