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Today at Ms. | April 9, 2025
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When Women Lose Medicaid, We All Pay the Price [[link removed]]
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By Lelaine Bigelow and Ai-Jen Poo | Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of women, covering essential healthcare needs like pregnancy care, elder support and long-term care.
Proposed cuts to the program would not only harm women but also ripple through families, workplaces and communities—driving up healthcare costs and deepening economic instability.
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The Story of Chicago’s First Black Woman-Owned Bookstore [[link removed]]
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By Katie Mitchell | An excerpt from Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell, out April 8:
“Meeting Desiree Sanders made me wish I had a time machine so I could travel back to the 1990s and 2000s and just once, experience Chicago’s first Black woman-owned bookstore, Afrocentric Bookstore. … Before the store closed permanently in 2008, Afrocentric Bookstore served the Black community for 18 years. Thousands sat at book signings, partied at book festivals, browsed curated inventory, and soaked in the artful aesthetics that Afrocentric became known for—no time machine required.”
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Under 50? The Trump-Musk-DOGE Attack on Social Security Is Coming for You Too. [[link removed]]
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By Jessica Mason | Even if retirement feels out of reach, younger Americans can’t afford to ignore the GOP’s coordinated effort to sabotage Social Security from the inside out.
The playbook seems clear: Take one of the most popular and successful government programs we hav, and break it. Claim it’s so dysfunctional that it has to be dismantled, perhaps even privatized as Republicans have tried to do before. And use a flood of lies and misinformation to convince younger Americans to go along with their scheme. In essence, they’ll set our house on fire, and then stand there with fistfuls of spent matches telling us that it was doomed anyway and “would you like to invest in a nice condo near Mar-a-Lago instead?”
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As we reckon with an administration hostile to equal rights, feminists will continue to fight. To help keep hope, we must remember and celebrate recent wins.
One of those wins is the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which took effect on June 27, 2023. This is a landmark piece of legislation that prohibits discrimination and ensures workplace accommodations related to pregnancy for workers. But is the PWFA safe, or will it be threatened by the Trump administration’s crusade against reproductive rights and justice?
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