The New York Times writes in an editorial: “Members of Congress and civil rights groups are pushing the Federal Communications Commission to rein in telephone companies that, in many states, charge inmates spectacularly high rates that can force their fa…
Laura Bassett writes on The Huffington Post: “Decades before lawmakers were debating access to birth control on the House floor, Republicans and Democrats actually agreed on issues such as equal pay and family planning. But today’s Republican Party has m…
Ezra Klein writes or Bloomberg: “The thing about not having much money is you have to take much more responsibility for your life. You can’t pay people to watch your kids or clean your house or fix your meals. You can’t necessarily afford a car or a wash…
At a July 11 press conference announcing NOW’s endorsement of President Barack Obama, a reporter asked about Mitt Romney’s message on the economy, and I suggested that the GOP candidate “bring it” — that feminists are ready to have a substantive conversation about Romney’s economic ideas and the impact they would have on women if he were elected.
Mimi Abramovitz writes for Women’s eNews: “In making false statements about Obama’s welfare policies, there’s a good chance that Romney was using welfare–the program that helps single mothers, many of them women of color, to get by–as a race card to wi…