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By
Susan Buttenwieser
| May 16, 2017
“Across the board, this is a terrible bill for women,” said Jamila K.
Taylor, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, speaking
about the American
Health Care Act (AHCA). The Republican-led House of Representatives
passed the bill on May 4, without waiting for a report from the
nonpartisan Congressional
Budget Office, whose economic analysis of proposed legislation would
provide an estimate of how much it will cost and how many people could
lose health
insurance. The Senate is expected to start work on its version once
the CBO score is completed later this month. But advocates and angry
constituents were
already voicing their outrage.
The Center for American Progress called the AHCA “one of the worst
bills for women’s health in a generation” because it would defund
Planned Parenthood;
institute work requirements for most mothers on Medicaid; allow states
to waive requirements that all insurers cover all essential health
benefits including
maternity care, mental health services, and prescription drugs;
restrict private health insurance of abortion; increase premiums for
people with pre-existing
conditions; and throw millions of people off their coverage.
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Trump policies that hurt workers may be new wedge issue
By
Karen Nussbaum
| May 10, 2017
Chatting on her front porch with a Working America organizer named
Sara, Phylis, an 87-year-old voter in Columbus, Ohio, talked about her
views on good
jobs and President Trump. “I wouldn't think much of him if he took
away safety standards,” she said.
Phylis has good reason to be worried. In 2015, 4,836 workers were
killed on the job in the United States, and nearly 3.7 million
work-related injuries
and illnesses were reported.
What surprised me is that Phylis is a Trump voter who strongly
supports him on nearly every other issue. Unfazed by his ties to
Russia, conflicts of interest,
and cabinet appointments, Phylis didn’t stop to reconsider her
choice—until Sara raised the threats to job safety in Trump’s budget.
And that’s an important
lesson for all of us.
She, and the thousands of other Trump voters we talk to every week,
didn’t show up at the Women’s March and don’t connect with the
resistance. Phylis is
one of millions of people we call “searchers”—Trump voters who are not
ideologues, but are sincerely, even desperately looking for a way out
of an increasingly
grim economic future for their families. That’s where issues like
workplace safety and equal pay come in.
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10 do's and don'ts on how to interview sexualized violence survivors
By
Lauren Wolfe
/Director | May 17, 2017
This is meant as an informal guide for journalists who cover
sexualized violence or want to, mainly in an international context.
Over the years I’ve consulted
with dozens of experts: psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists,
doctors, NGO staffers, journalists who’ve long covered this topic, and
many others.
This is the fruit of those discussions. It is also the product of
years of my own reporting in war zones. During this time, I’ve seen
and experienced a
lot of awful interactions between survivors and journalists, as well
as some that have gone extremely well.
I’m sure there is much missing in my discussion here, so please note
that this is an incomplete, and personal, guide. My hope is that it
may help even
one journalist better tell a story of rape, or one survivor confide it
without being retraumatized.
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Image description: This photo of a young teen in the Democratic
Republic of Congo was used to illustrate a story about her rape while
protecting her identity.
(Lauren Wolfe)