[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
September 7, 2022
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
Biden Just Canceled Significant Amounts of Your Student Loan Debt. Here’s How to Claim It [[link removed]]
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Graduates at the University of Maryland in May 2014. (Maryland GovPics / Wikimedia Commons)
BY ROXY SZAL | The Biden administration announced it would cancel significant amounts of student debt for millions of Americans, marking the largest discharge of education debt in U.S. history. Under the new plan, individual student loan borrowers earning under $125,000 per year (or $250,000 for households) qualify for up to $10,000 in loan forgiveness. Recipients of Pell Grants are eligible for an additional $10,000 in forgiveness.
Student loan debtors are disproportionately women, who hold about two-thirds of student loan debt—yet earn just 74 percent of what men graduates earn. Black students are also disproportionately plagued by student loan debt: More than 70 percent of Black students go into debt, compared to 56 percent of white students.
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Unionized Starbucks Employees Fight for Abortion Care Benefits [[link removed]] The Case for Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills [[link removed]]
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The Jackson Water Crisis Is a Crisis of Leadership [[link removed]] ‘Chaos, Confusion and Crisis’: Marking a Full Year of Texas’ Six-Week Abortion Ban [[link removed]]
What we're reading:
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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"Justice
Alito’s
Crusade
Against
a
Secular
America
Isn’t
Over”
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The
New
Yorker
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“I
asked
61
colleges
if
they
would
pay
for
students
to
travel
for
an
abortion.
Only
five
hinted
that
they
might.”
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The
Meteor
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How did America’s history of reproductive control and abortion restrictions lead to our current moment of crisis? Join us to unpack the historical events that led us to the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, and examine how the Supreme Court failed in its analysis and recounting of America’s history around reproductive health, rights, and justice.
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