Printable PDF ISSUE ADVISORY: GOP Tax Nightmare- Billions for the Rich; Less for Everyone Else, Especially Women November 13, 2017 Donors Demand their Big Tax Cut – The billionaires and millionaires who gave huge campaign contributions to Republican candidates are demanding their reward, and the GOP is complying with tax proposals that would help them Read more …
“We don’t talk about the men, and how the men should change.”
Trump is a bully, and he’s picking on young people. But this is not a schoolyard, and the potential for danger is very real.
Today, Black women catch up in wages to what white men earned in 2016. It’s a striking annual reminder to pay attention to the economic inequality African-American women face, and how it is–tragically, persistently–driven by both race and gender.
Their worlds often resist the container of politicized terminology that is often the exclusive province of college-educated people. But working-class women have seen the most devastating outcomes of gender inequality. Impoverished mothers with hungry children, abused wives too poor and rural to access the legal system, work that is not only undervalued and underpaid but makes their fingers bleed.