Money and Computing
Jill Norgren, They Made Good Trouble: U.S. Women Who Ran for Office 1853-1920
Jill Norgren writes: Suffrage is an important, but partial, expression of women’s political and legal citizenship. We must see the suffrage movement as part of something larger intertwined with the temperance movement and the decades-long demands for married women’s property rights. Those rights included the right to make contracts and act on behalf of others, the Populist and Socialist movements and, of course, the right to run for elective office, an act the late Congressman John Lewis would have called “making good trouble.” more »
Chair Jerome H. Powell: A Current Assessment of the Response to the Economic Fallout of this Historic Event
Payrolls have now recovered roughly half of the 22 million decline. After rising to 14.7 percent in April, the unemployment rate is back to 7.9 percent ... A broader measure that better captures current labor market conditions — by adjusting for mistaken characterizations of job status, and for the decline in labor force participation since February — is running around 11 percent...The initial job losses fell most heavily on lower-wage workers in service industries facing the public — job categories in which minorities and women are overrepresented... Combined with the disproportionate effects of COVID on communities of color, and the overwhelming burden of childcare during quarantine and distance learning, which has fallen mostly on women, the pandemic is further widening divides in wealth and economic mobility. more »
Jo Freeman: How to Debate a Bully
Jo Freeman writes: How to debate a bully? That was the question Tuesday night at the first Presidential debate of 2020. This was not Trump’s first appearance as a schoolyard bully. What was surprising was that he didn’t leave that persona in the closet in favor of wearing one more appealing to a large and diverse audience. Did he choose to act like a bully, or could he just not help himself? more »
The Mask Hypocrisy: How COVID Memos Contradict the White House’s Public Face
While the president and vice president forgo masks at rallies, the White House is quietly encouraging governors to implement mask mandates and, for some, enforce them with fines. In reports issued to governors on Sept. 20, the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommended statewide mask mandates in Iowa, Missouri and Oklahoma. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is among the Republican governors who have resisted a statewide masking order, despite the White House’s recommendation. “You don’t need government to tell you to wear a dang mask,” Parson said in July at a Missouri Cattlemen’s Association steak fry, according to the Springfield News-Leader. “If you want to wear a dang mask, wear a mask.” Parson and his wife, Teresa, tested positive for COVID-19 last Wednesday. more »