“The number of women held in the nation’s 3,200 municipal and county jails for misdemeanor crimes or who are awaiting trial or sentencing had increased significantly — to about 110,000 in 2014 from fewer than 8,000 in 1970.”
The United States hit a milestone moment last month when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major political party’s presidential nomination.
That’s important progress. It’s also not nearly enough.
Roughly one in five Americans lives with a disability. So where is our pride movement?
In Donald Trump’s mind, child care is something he wants for the well-off parents who can afford rooms at his luxury resorts, but not for the people who work so hard to make those families comfortable.
Victor Mather writes for The New York Times, “Players from the Liberty and the Indiana Fever spoke out in dismay Thursday after the W.N.B.A. fined them for wearing T-shirts intended to raise awareness in the aftermath of recent shootings by and of the police. Three teams, the Liberty, the Fever and the Phoenix Mercury, had Read more …