It should be a no-brainer. Women deserve equal pay for equal work. But here in America, white women are paid on average just 82 cents to a man's dollar. For women of color, the pay disparity is even greater.

Congress can and must do better to eliminate the gender pay gap in America.

As our nation moved earlier this year to shore up the COVID-19 pandemic after President Joe Biden's inauguration, here's what I wrote about a grave problem that was happening simultaneously:

Hunger is the silent epidemic, something far too many Americans quietly suffer, too often — all while our nation's wealthiest are raking in billions at historic rates.

So many families are at the breaking point, and that's why I'm calling on President Biden to appoint a national White House Conference on Hunger to take the lead on this crisis.

We might have a new Congress, but we've got the same destructive Republican "leadership".

Democrats won at all levels with a mandate to go big, undoing the Trump era's damage and moving us towards a healthier environment, a recharged economy that works for everyone, and true racial equity. But Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans aren't interested. McConnell will tell his colleagues openly that his only goal is to win back power. That's why he's doing everything possible to hold the American people hostage through the filibuster.