Today at Ms. | October 18, 2021


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Think Build Back Better Is Expensive? Wait Till You Hear the U.S. Defense Budget. [[link removed]]

BY MARTHA BURK | The main objection to President Biden’s Build Back Better plan by Republicans and so-called “moderate” Democrats is the price tag—$3.5 trillion over 10 years. If that sounds like a lot of money, it is—until you compare it to the boys and their toys.
We don’t need a rocket scientist to tell us why women’s jobs aren’t recovering: a lack of childcare and universal pre-kindergarten, a lack of paid family leave. The Build Back Better Act would go a long way toward fixing that.

We Need More Women in Leadership at the Fed: Personnel Is Policy [[link removed]]

BY VASUDHA DESIKAN and SOLANA RICE | Senior officials at the Federal Reserve—all white men—were recently caught in an insider trading scandal, epitomizing what happens when government officials prioritize their own interests over what’s best for the public good.
The president now has a historic opportunity to remake the all-white Federal Reserve Board in the image of the coalition that won him the White House and to promote the racial and gender justice necessary for a fully realized Build Back Better agenda. Let’s put powerful women in power and reshape the Fed into an institutional force for race, gender and economic progress.

Women Whistleblowers Aren’t Always Believed [[link removed]]

BY MICHELE WELDON | For women whistleblowers like Frances Haugen, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford, pulling back the curtain does not always change the script of the play.

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Dr. Goodwin is joined by former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards to discuss the dark money underwriting anti-abortion laws like Texas’s near-total abortion ban S.B. 8 and her Abortion Ban Accountability project, which is calling out corporations who fund legislators who stand against abortion rights and LGBTQ rights.
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