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Lea Woods
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She/Her. Women’s economic policy at The Century Foundation. Formerly Economic Policy Institute and Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Memes and labor rights. Tweets my own.
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As @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social discuss on the Power User podcast, the same laws used to censor porn will be used to criminalize art, news, and educational content that references sex, LGBTQ people, or women’s rights. What’s happening in MI was laid out in Project 2025
Podcast transcript that reads: “Because I have not read Project 2025 in its entirety. I know it's like a thousand pages long, but I have searched for all of the sections that have to do with porn. I've searched for all the sections that have to do with trans people and with women's rights. And it takes you like 10 minutes to read through and it is spelled out very, very clearly and explicitly that their plan that is in action, that is already happening and has already had massive consequences is to take porn, criminalize porn and then associate not only sex workers who do not deserve to be criminalized but also to associate trans people, LGBTQ people, women's rights organizations, sexual education, associate all these things under this label of pornography and then criminalize it so that nobody can access it. Like, that is the plan that has been the plan. And yet, you have people who purport to be Democrats, who purport to be anti-Project 2025, signing up and ensuring that these things come to pass.”
September 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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This Thursday, join Anna Gifty (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) as she launches her new book, "The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid" and discusses Black women's employment with IWPR's Jamila Taylor and TCF's @angelanhanks.bsky.social.
September 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"The problem underlying the child care crisis is that we rely on the private market to solve a problem it can’t," says @tcfdotorg.bsky.social's Ruth Friedman. Competitive compensation for workers and public investments in child care would make the system work.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Ruth Friedman, former director of the Office of Child Care, writes in a Washington Post Letter to the Editor: As the former director of the Office of Child Care at the Department of Health and Human Services, I know well that America has a real child care crisis that costs parents and the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year, and I strongly disagreed with Jordan McGillis’s suggestions on how to fix the problem. Child care is already one of the lowest-paid professions, despite the essential work it provides of caring for our children. Low compensation of the child care workforce is one of the reasons parents struggle to find the care they need: It increases staff turnover, raises the cost of doing business and can keep programs from being fully enrolled. Part of the solution to the crisis must include competitive compensation for child care workers. With higher pay, more people would be attracted to the profession of caring for children, more child care workers would stay in their jobs and the supply of care would grow. Creating economic conditions where individual child care workers earn less per hour, as suggested by McGillis, is flat out bad for kids and families. The problem underlying the child care crisis is that we rely on the private market to solve a problem it can’t. The market has not provided enough child care to meet family needs because slim profit margins, rising costs and competition for child care staff make for an untenable business model, and yet parents are maxed out by high prices. Economic analysis shows we need public investments in child care to make the system work for families. Parents should be confident their children are safe, happy and learning while in child care, and McGillis’s suggestions aren’t the way forward.
September 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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FBI/HSI/ICE stopping cars along U Street for absolutely no reason. This is harassment, it is not in the interest of public safety. We are experiencing a military occupation of the capital city
August 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The Child Care for Working Families Act (CCWFA) would signal that #ChildCare is a national priority by lowering child care costs for families, improving the quality and availability of care, and raising early educator pay.
The Child Care for Working Families Act would guarantee assistance to every eligible family, lower child care costs for families, give families freedom to choose the early education programs that work best for them, and invest in the workforce
July 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Actual transcript of Joe Rogan—who has more than 14 million followers—talking to former Senior Presidential Advisor Elon Musk.
Rogan and Musk conversing about how certain attitudes can only be pulled off by hot women and the likelihood of a sex robot being developed in the next five years
June 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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As did Jamila Taylor and @lipstickecon.bsky.social in their great @msmagazine.com piece: msmagazine.com/2025/05/20/t...
June 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The “is this a pigeon” meme which asks if baby bonuses are pro-family policy
May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Now is a great time for everyone to read sociologist @jenniferreich.bsky.social’s book, “Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines.” Incredibly informative and compassionate look at the anti-vax movement from a researcher/parent who is very pro vaccination
April 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Children with disabilities are facing a double threat from federal cuts to support systems they need every day: Medicaid covers costs for more than 6,600,000 of them and the U.S. Department of Education protects their rights at school. tcf.org/content/comm...
March 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Absolutely horrendous take. Similar to what @michaelhobbes.bsky.social has said, the perceived threat of leftist language policing in academia pales in comparison to the very real threat of Republicans detaining and deporting student activists. It is absurd to assign these equal levels of harm
March 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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“If we’re going to have the CHIPS program be successful, we’re going to need workers…that’s going to require a more thoughtful conversation about child care,” says Commerce Secretary Raimondo at the Chamber of Commerce’s #NationalChildCareSummit
December 3, 2024 at 3:42 PM