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Giving Tuesday Is Just Around the Corner: We hope you and your loved ones are gearing up for a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with great food, laughter, and love. All of us at Independent Women’s Forum are beyond grateful for you. 🦃
This year, Independent Women’s Forum has stood up for women and advanced policies that expand freedom and help save America. We have driven thousands of actions, testified over 70 times, and told powerful stories about real people who are being hurt by those who seek to marginalize women as a matter of policy and erase them in the law. We’ve had many landmark victories but must continue to build on this great momentum. With your continued support, we will embark on a new wave of impact in 2024.
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** Thirty Years After The Morning After ([link removed])
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Thirty years ago, Katie Roiphe’s The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism challenged the emphasis on “rape culture” and “date rape” that defined 1980s and 1990s feminism. The 25-year-old enfant terrible of a feminist discourse that focused on women’s victimization at the hands of men, Roiphe argued that, in the sexual realm, feminists should celebrate liberation and accept responsibility, not seek protection and embrace victimhood. Read More ([link removed])
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** Thanksgiving Inflation Woes: Unraveling the Impact of Massive Federal Spending ([link removed])
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Thanksgiving, a beloved American holiday ranking second in spending only to Christmas, faces a concerning challenge—the impact of inflation on the nation’s economy from escalating federal spending. According to CNBC, Thanksgiving represents 13.4% of holiday spending, with Americans splurging an estimated $1.1 billion on festivities in 2022. Despite an overall decrease in Thanksgiving meal costs since 2022, the lingering effects of inflation are keeping prices astronomically high and higher than in 2021. Read More ([link removed])
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** Independent Women’s Network Launches Charleston, South Carolina Chapter ([link removed])
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Independent Women’s Network celebrates the launch of its Charleston, South Carolina Chapter. This chapter joins 24 chapters around the country and an online community of more than 25,000 members.
“When women lead, things will happen. Behind every successful woman is a tribe of other successful women. Fierce minds, kind hearts, brave spirits—that’s our formula for successful women,” said Charleston Chapter Leader Denise Johnson.
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** K-12 Education System’s Looming Fiscal Chaos ([link removed])
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Which of the following is NOT true about the K-12 education system’s looming fiscal chaos?
A. The amount of K-12 education funding provided by the federal government to states and school districts has soared since 2019.
B. The federal government provided supplemental emergency K-12 funding so that schools could hire more teachers and other permanent staff members.
C. School districts will encounter a perfect storm of self-inflicted financial chaos next year when federal pandemic-era supplemental funding expires and district enrollment continues to rapidly decline.
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** The Culprit of Restrictions on Classic Novels: Progressive Teachers ([link removed])
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“Banned” Books Week has passed, but PEN America still continues to push inaccurate rhetoric, claiming books that parents raise questions about, including books that contain sexually explicit, pornographic material, are “banned” from schools. Just a few days ago, the singer Pink joined with PEN America to give away “banned” books at Florida concerts. One of the books is “Beloved,” which was on Green Apple Books’ Banned and Challenged Book List of 2023. These books are not actually banned. They are still widely available at bookstores and online, even if they are rightly restricted from school libraries because of their inappropriate content for young children.
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** What, for the Veteran, Does ‘Transition’ Mean? ([link removed])
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Eventually, no matter if they’ve served for just one tour of duty or several, two years or twenty-plus, every single individual who has entered the U.S. Armed Forces as a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guard, or Space Force Guardian, has to leave their branch of service and exit the military—and become a U.S. civilian once again.
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