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kali9/iStockBy KATIE KINDELAN via GMA(NEW YORK) March 9 marks Equal Pay Day for Asian American and Pacific Islander women, the day that AAPI women have to work into 2021 to earn the same amount of money that white, non-Hispanic men earned in 2020, according to the National Women's Law Center (NWLC).On average, AAPI women are paid 85 centers for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men, according to the NWLC, a policy-focused organization that fights for gender justice."This group faces one of the smallest wage gaps, but the loss of 15 cents on the dollar, it adds up," Jasmine Tucker, director of research at the NWLC, said. "It's $833 [lost] a month, $10,000 a year and $400,000 over the course of a career, and those are just lost earnings."This year's AAPI Equal Pay Day comes at a particularly tenuous time specifically for women, who have been hit disproportionately hard financially by the coronavirus pandemic, which has put more than 2 million w

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