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Hillary Clinton has made equal pay for women a major piece of her campaign. | AP Photo Clinton: Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill isn't enough

Hillary Clinton thinks the decision to feature women like Harriet Tubman on U.S. currency isn’t enough — using the Treasury Department's latest announcement to once again urge equal pay for women.

"It’s not just enough to be on the money, you need to be making the money, and that’s what we want to talk about today," Clinton said during a discussion about economic barriers at a Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, café. Among those speaking alongside the former secretary of state was Lilly Ledbetter, the woman whose name graced the Fair Pay Act in 2009, which expanded employees' rights to challenge pay discrimination disputes in court.

The remarks came just two days after the administration announced that the Treasury Department will be replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, with the redesigned bill expected to be unveiled in 2020, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Leaders of the women's suffrage movement will also appear on the back of the new $10 bill, while civil rights leaders and other notable Americans will go on the back of the $5 bill.

Clinton said she was “very excited about Harriet Tubman and the other women who are going to be included on our money."

"But," she added, "I also want to make sure that women are making the money that we deserve to make."

Clinton has made equal pay for women a major piece of her campaign, touting her co-sponsorship the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009. Earlier this month, she joined a roundtable discussion hosted by Glassdoor in which she reiterated her calls for closing the wage gap where women on average earn about 76 cents for every dollar a man makes.