💵 Inflationary spending spree: At a time when Americans expect Washington to behave with restraint, the administration has put forward a spending plan with policy priorities that are out of step with the country. Read more.
- TLDR: Tons and TONS and TONS of tax increases.
📈 Inflation stories: Government overspending and short-sighted economic policies have created unprecedented inflation, supply chain disruptions, and a labor market crisis. The only way Washington politicians will learn that spending sprees have consequences is if YOU speak up. Share your inflation story.
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We hope you've enjoyed IWF's special Women's History Month series featuring stories of female thought leaders, lawmakers, media personalities, and heroes from our popular Champion Women Profile series. Charlotte Hays, the profile series author, publishes a new profile every other Monday on iwf.org. To close out the month, meet Rep. Michelle Steel >>
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The labor market is trying to send signals about the high value and great demand for nursing care. As demand for nurses has increased, so has nurse pay. Average nurse pay (nationwide) increased 4% over one year to $81,376 in November of 2021, with greater increases in places with the highest demand. In response, some state legislators want to intervene to cap travel nurse pay, presumably to protect patients and taxpayers from higher healthcare costs. Read more.
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Several thousand Muslim Chechen fighters are reportedly assembling on the edges of Kiev. Hundreds are believed to have fought in Mariupol. Syrian volunteers filmed last week holding assault rifles, Russian flags, and chanting pro-Kremlin slogans, are in route to the Ukrainian frontline. Syrians are also part of Ukraine’s foreign legion to fight against Russia. There, they join some 20,000 foreign volunteers, including an estimated 3,000 Americans. Read more.
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Independent Women’s Network members are staying in the loop with the Network’s Daily Must Reads — top headlines curated for you along with smart, sometimes withering analysis from Miss Must herself, Charlotte Hays. Take a peep at the member-exclusive daily feature and learn more about IW's supportive member community.
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Can you guess which of the following is not true about the Affordable Care Act?
A. The ACA resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance, mostly by expanding private health insurance.
B. The ACA caused health insurance premiums and deductibles in the individual market to skyrocket.
C. The ACA caused health insurance plans to narrow their networks, in other words, to restrict which hospitals and providers were available to people with ACA coverage.
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 She Thinks Podcast
- New Episode: On this episode, Hadley Heath Manning, the director of policy at Independent Women’s Forum, discusses the misleading messaging about the wage gap. Listen to it here.
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- Next Episode: This Friday, Rafael Mangual, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins the program to discuss the surging crime crisis in America. Hear it here.
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Research from the Institute for Family Studies found that 40% of moms with children under five prefer part-time work, with 35% preferring full-time work and 25% preferring not to work. Yet some states, including Tennessee, penalize part-time workers with unnecessary occupational licensing requirements.
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Ironically, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson can’t seem to provide the basic definition for what a woman is. If a judge cannot say what words are commonly understood to mean, how is she to do her job? By reference to modern notions of social justice?
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