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BY JESSICA MASON | For too many—especially women of color—paychecks aren’t keeping up. Inflation is inching downward, but costs for groceries, childcare and rent feel out of reach.

But congressional fights over taxes and spending are really about fundamental questions: What do women, our families and communities need? What kind of future do we want to build? Recent budget proposals by the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress show how our two major political parties answer those questions. The answers were starkly different, revealing high stakes when it comes to women’s ability to participate in the economy, care for their families and control their own reproductive lives. 

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In the U.S., it is much more expensive to be single than it is to be married. And according to former Department of the Treasury tax attorney Lily Khang, a single person never pays less in taxes than a couple filing jointly. (Catherine Falls / Getty Images)

BY SAADIA VAN WINKLE and JHUMPA BHATTACHARYA | The current U.S. tax code is an outdated system that does not benefit or reflect the needs of our modern society’s social structures or increasingly diverse demographics. Among those it costs the most: single women, married Black couples and gay couples.

Research finds women who are single and without children are America’s happiest and healthiest group. But thanks to our antiquated and heteronormative tax code, they’re also financially penalized. It’s time for our tax code to reflect our reality.

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Left: Coming to Jones Road Tanka #1 Harriet Tubman, 2010.  Acrylic on canvas 65 x 44 in. Right: Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles (The French Collection Part I: #4) 1991. Acrylic on canvas, printed and tie-dyed fabric 74 x 80 in. (Faith Ringgold © 2022  / ARS member, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York)

BY MICHELE WALLACE | Faith Ringgold died Saturday at the age of 93. In 2022, her daughter Michele Wallace wrote about the power of her mother's work for our #Tubman200 project:

"Faith Ringgold’s art on Harriet Tubman is an illustration of her capacity as an artist for taking somber stories and turning them into stories of triumph, victory and joy. 

"Faith (my mother) is a fabulist whose real interest is in projecting her ideas into the future. The older I get, the more I appreciate my mother’s art, in particular her insistence upon rendering the most apparently despairing circumstances of our histories as Black folk as opportunities for spiritual and magical transcendence."

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