The $600 weekly federal unemployment insurance payout is set to end on July 25; how and why you should become a poll worker this fall; diet culture is a tool of the patriarchy.
*"Today at Ms."** | **July 16, 2020*
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*Unemployment Compensation Runs Out This Month. Will Congress #SaveThe600? [ [link removed] ]*
BY GISELLE HENGST | Although the economic fallout caused by COVID-19 continues to worsen, the $600 weekly federal unemployment insurance payout to impacted workers is set to end on July 25 in most states.
*Democracy Needs You: How and Why You Should Become a Poll Worker This November [ [link removed] ]*
BY VIOLET RAWLINGS & AUDREY GIBBS | An election worker is an essential component to every polling place location on Election Day. That "essential" status has taken on a new meaning in 2020-as polling locations in states throughout the nation threaten to close due to COVID-19 cases on the rise and shortages of willing workers.
*Tools of the Patriarchy: Diet Culture and How We All Perpetuate the Stigma [ [link removed] ]*
BY GAVI KLEIN & AUDREY GIBBS | "Diet culture is a tool of the patriarchy because of how fixated on diminishing ourselves we can become," Kimberly Dark, regular "Ms". contributor and author of "Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old" told "Ms". "A lot of folks have pointed out that an obsessed population is a docile one." _________________________________________
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