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Gina Raimondo’s focus as commerce secretary: inequality, jobs and climate change
Commerce secretary nominee Gina Raimondo, the governor of Rhode Island, said in her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that she will focus on job creation with an eye on climate change and workers.
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Undocumented women are among the most vulnerable to COVID. Vaccinating them will be difficult.
Undocumented frontline workers, and particularly women, are next in line to get vaccinated, but they face a host of barriers in accessing the coronavirus vaccine.
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Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to serve as Treasury secretary
A well-respected economist, Yellen has previously served as chair of the Federal Reserve and chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
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Four new executive orders could give women an outsized economic boost
The orders, two of which Biden will sign Friday, will provide additional food aid, raise the minimum wage for federal workers, as well as extend eviction moratoriums and student debt deference.
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America falls far behind in supporting women with paid sick leave. Will Biden help with a national policy?
With nominees to lead the Treasury, Labor and Commerce departments who are committed to paid sick leave, President Joe Biden’s administration is poised to perhaps move the needle toward a national policy.
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In confirmation hearings, Treasury nominee Janet Yellen specifies who she’s fighting for: Women and people of color
If confirmed, Yellen’s top priority as the country’s first woman Treasury secretary would be to put in place programs that help those most affected by the pandemic recession.
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Andrea M. Hall, who will recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the inauguration, knows what it’s like to be a “first”
She carved a path for Black women firefighters in Georgia, and now, she will represent those essential workers at Wednesday’s inauguration.
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Biden to announce his $1.9 trillion economic plan. Much of it will help women.
In what he’s calling his “Rescue” plan, President-elect Joe Biden laid out his economic proposal to get aid to families, child care centers, schools and those hardest hit by the pandemic. The plan would need support from Congress to pass.
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About 700,000 parents with young kids left the workforce in 2020. For many, loss of child care was to blame.
Only about half of child care jobs lost at the start of the pandemic have returned, leading to a 144 percent increase in the number of parents who have missed work to care for children, according to new data analysis.
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The women who saved the boxes of electoral votes during a riot in the Capitol
A Senate aide directed staff to protect the three mahogany boxes containing the certified electoral college votes while rioters stormed the Capitol Wednesday afternoon.