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Today at Ms. | April 14, 2022
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Student Loan Debt is a Gender Issue, Especially for Women of Color [[link removed]]
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Former Ohio state Senator and current candidate Nina Turner speaks near the U.S. Department of Education in D.C. on April 4, 2022, as organizers demand full student debt cancellation. (Leigh Vogel / Getty Images for MoveOn & Debt Collective)
BY MORGAN JOHNSON and EMILY ESCOBAR | The student loan debt crisis is at an all time high, with 45 million people carrying an estimated $1.7 trillion in federal student loan debt. Women carry roughly two-thirds of it. Black and Brown women are disproportionately impacted by this issue.
Economic inequality, as influenced by class, race and gender, further increases each day student loan debt cancellation is delayed.
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A Firsthand View of the Crisis Ahead for Abortion Rights—and What We Should Do About It [[link removed]]
BY JON DUNN | As a nation, we are at a fork in the road and we will have to decide if we will allow our reproductive freedom to be determined by others, or if we are going to demand that these freedoms be protected where they still exist and restored where they have been compromised.
Since it seems we can no longer rely on the courts to protect these rights, our only solution is to pass a new federal law that will protect abortion rights in all 50 states. The Senate’s recent failure to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act makes it clear that we will need a greater pro-choice majority than we have today to pass this new legislation.
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Celebrating and Supporting Guatemalan Women Anti-Corruption Fighters and Champions of Democracy [[link removed]]
BY KERRY KENNEDY and CARA KENNEDY-CUOMO | Traveling to Guatemala last month, the juxtaposition of situations was striking. The depth to which corruption has become entrenched in the government, driven by the perniciousness of wealth inequality, is despairing; the lack of viable solutions nearly hopeless. Yet, the strength of the advocacy and legal community, led by the heroism of scores of women who are in many cases putting their own lives and livelihoods on the line to relentlessly beat forward a path to justice is deeply motivating.
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