; this represents 2.9 percent of 2012 gross domestic product. (B) Fewer working women and people of color would earn low wages, thereby reducing dependence on public assistance. The total increase in women’s earnings with pay equity represents more than 14 times what the Federal and State governments spent in fiscal year 2012 on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. (C) Working family members earning a fair rate of pay would encourage stable families and reduce poverty. The poverty rate for all working women would be cut in half, falling to 3.9 percent from 8.1 percent. The very high poverty rate for working single mothers would fall by nearly half, from 28.7 percent to 15.0 percent, and two-thirds would receive a pay increase. 3. Equal pay for equivalent jobs (a) Amendment Section 6 ( 29 U.S.C. 206 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) (1) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), no employer having employees subject to any provision of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by paying wages to employees in such establishment in a job that is dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to employees in such establishment in another job that is dominated by employees of the opposite sex or of a different race or national origin, respectively, for work on equivalent jobs, nor shall such employer between such employees on the basis of sex, race, or national origin in any other terms, conditions, privileges, or benefits of employment. (B) Nothing in subparagraph (A) shall prohibit the payment of different wage rates to employees where such payment is made pursuant to— (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production