Last week, Independent Women’s Forum announced its Summer 2022 class of fellows. This new class features women who’ve worked at the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice as well as policy experts in tax and labor laws, technology freedom, and Hispanic outreach.
Our exceptional fellows will help us reach new audiences and more effectively execute our mission to advance policies that are more than just well-intended, but actually enhance people’s freedom, opportunities, and well-being.
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“It is becoming increasingly difficult to speak about women and women’s rights in a common language. Today, we are unveiling the Women’s Bill of Rights in order to legally define what it means to be a woman.”
- Jennifer C. Braceras, director of Independent Women’s Law Center
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During the pandemic, teachers unions fought to keep schools closed and thereby deprive students of a meaningful education. Now, the United Federation of Teachers is suing to keep shuttered a school in the Bronx. Specifically, Vertex Academies seeks to open a new charter high school in an impoverished neighborhood in the Bronx. But Vertex’s status is in question, because the United Federation of Teachers is suing to prevent the school from opening in August. Read more.
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Amazon Prime Day comes to a close today. Now seems like an odd time for the Senate to consider legislation that would likely raise consumer prices and sacrifice the cost-saving conveniences they depend on. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA, S. 2992) would reign in the activities of mega online companies — Apple, Amazon, Beta, Google, and Microsoft. Targeting companies with a market capitalization greater than $550 billion or 50 million U.S.-based monthly active users, the bill bars them from engaging in common practices that have enabled them to deliver to consumers high-quality goods and services for little or no cost. Read more.
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Independent Women’s Network Director Julie Gunlock and Independent Women’s Law Center Director Jennifer C. Braceras discussed the Supreme Court decisions from Dobbs v. Jackson, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, West Virginia v. EPA, and more.
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Finding affordable child care can be a real challenge for many families.
Can you identify which of the following statements is not true?
A. Child care is a large and expensive part of the U.S. economy.
B. More government funding and regulation will make child care less expensive and more diverse.
C. The government has a track record of failures when it comes to child care.
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 She Thinks Podcast
- New Episode: Last week, David Osborne, CEO of Americans for Fair Treatment, joined the program to discuss unionization in Congress and the power of teachers unions. Listen here.
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- Next Episode: This Friday, Cesar Ybarra, vice president of policy at FreedomWorks, joins the program to discuss midterms and what's motivating Hispanics to vote. Hear it here.
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American people are coming to welfare offices hungry for food stamps, baby formula, and other basic necessities, and they are not getting what they asked for. What’s worse is that the White House has also directed thousands of federal bureaucrats to force feed Americans election promotional materials and run elections, when taxpayers are actually paying them to run the food programs.
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West Virginia passed its first school choice program in 2021, the Hope Scholarship, giving parents and their children a world of options. An anti-choice group called “Public Funds Public Schools,” a wing of the Southern Poverty Law Center, brought a lawsuit earlier this year claiming the Hope Scholarship violates the West Virginia constitution.
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