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Investing in Social Infrastructure Provides a Recovery Path for All—But Especially Low-Income Families

 

 

BY KATIE FLEISCHER | Too often, policies that are perceived to be “feminine” or unequally benefiting women are dismissed in favor of more “serious” policies. The two infrastructure bills working their way through Congress are no exception.

In reality, policies like the child tax credit, paid family leave and guaranteed income result in better outcomes for everyone.

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Women’s Land Rights Are Necessary to Build Climate-Resilient Futures

BY JULIET SCHULMAN-HALL | “Despite the huge impact of agriculture on emissions, and the huge potential of land use for both mitigation and adaptation, it still receives far too little attention; and gender is consistently given minimal attention or altogether left out in conversations about agriculture and land use planning and management in particular, relative to climate conversations overall,” Beth Roberts, the director of Landesa’s Center for Women’s Land Rights, told Ms. 
 
 
 
 
When “Six Weeks” Is Actually Two: Understanding Periods Is Essential to Fighting Abortion Bans

BY JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF | There continues to be a visible, troubling disconnect in our collective literacy of the menstrual cycle—especially vis-à-vis the way we frame early pregnancy and abortion. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke to the press about S.B. 8, the new law that all but obliterates the right to abortion in the state, saying, “[O]bviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.” He is 100 percent wrong.

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