Plus: Measles, Gender Identity Surveys, and Trigger Warnings                                                                            

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Return to the Economic Principles That Built America’s Extraordinary Economic Engine: This week, Carrie Sheffield, senior policy analyst for the Center for Economic Opportunity at Independent Women's Forum, provided expert testimony before a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing. During the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs panel titled “Bidenomics: A Perfect Storm of Spending, Debt, and Inflation,” Sheffield examined how policymakers can reverse the ill effects of Bidenomics that are already hammering communities and homes nationwide:

“The perfect storm of Bidenomics is a man-made one, through an unsustainable combination of spending, debt, and inflation. But this storm is reversible through quick action. The government serves a critical role in ensuring that it does not squelch the American Dream through heavy-handed, costly, and opportunity-killing debt; spending; regulations; or fraudulent and ineffective programs.”

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** Spotlight: Fact Check: Can Schools Withhold Information From Parents About Gender Identity Surveys? Read ([link removed])
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** Chicago Teachers Union Head: Education Freedom for Me but Not for Thee ([link removed])
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This week on the West Coast, the San Bernardino Superior Court blocked a policy requiring schools to notify students’ parents if their children change gender identities, names, and/or pronouns. According to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, this ruling “protects kids from harm” by “ensuring the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of inclusivity.” Read More ([link removed])
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Measles is one of the most contagious pathogens. Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, measles epidemics every two to three years killed an estimated 500 children per year in the U.S. Though there is now a vaccine, measles makes most pediatricians sweat because it significantly affects unimmunized pediatric patients. For every 1000 children who get measles, according to the CDC, one to two will die, and one will get brain swelling that can leave a child intellectually impaired. One in 20 children with measles will get pneumonia. Read More ([link removed])


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** Act Now: Protect Student Safety and Privacy in Virginia ([link removed])
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While the revisions to Virginia’s model policies are commonsensical for most of us, fringe transgender activists, and now the Department of Justice, are trying to intervene and roadblock these important changes. Let’s lift our voices to encourage Virginia’s public schools to adopt policies consistent with the new guidance.
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Which of the following is NOT true about working moms?

A. Baby benefits beat government dictates for women.
B. Working moms need federal government support for child care.
C. Greater workplace flexibility helps moms balance work and childcare needs.
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** Trigger Warnings Have Made Young People Less Resilient ([link removed])
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It takes guts to admit when you’re wrong, so we’ve got to hand it to writer Jill Filipovic, who confessed in The Atlantic last month, “I was wrong about trigger warnings.” Filipovic writes that she used to believe disclaimers on top of articles on touchy subjects—trigger warning: sexual assault, and the like—“were sometimes necessary to convey the seriousness of the topics at hand. We thought we were making the world just a little bit better,” she wrote. “It didn’t occur to me until much later that we might have been part of the problem.”
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** Biden Sacrificed Children’s Learning To Appease Teachers Unions ([link removed])
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During the pandemic, President Biden sacrificed children’s learning to appease a major teachers union, agreeing to its demand to postpone the return to the classroom for many of the nation’s students, The Atlantic writer Franklin Foer documented in his new book, The Last Politician. “For the sake of avoiding conflict, especially conflict with an ally, the Biden administration trimmed its goal of returning kids to school to a fraction of what had been promised on the campaign trail,” the author wrote.
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