Government
Reprise of Elizabeth Warren, Woman of Note
As long as you had family, you had people who would make sure that you got fed one way or another. Family was about canning peaches, and canning peaches was about making sure that there'd at least be something come next November, when it was cold outside and there were no more crops coming in. Family is the heart of what it's about more »
Testimonies: Choosing to Work During Retirement & Extending the Bush Tax Cuts
Baucus pressed witnesses on the need to ensure that tax rate cuts intended to benefit small businesses really do benefit small businesses and not a small number of extremely wealthy individuals receiving income from large businesses. more »
A guide to what the state ballots will be presenting to voters in 2010:
"Voters in Missouri will get the nation's first chance to weigh in on the federal health care law when they take up a measure August 3 that takes aim at the new mandate that everyone have insurance. Nationwide, more than 120 questions are slated to appear on statewide ballots this fall on topics ranging from property taxes to abortion. And there will be more: A number of states have yet to reach their filing deadlines. Below is a sampling of measures that have already qualified for the ballot." more »
The Feminist Moles in the Federal Government
Basically, they slipped back under the radar, becoming moles more like the early 1960s feminist insiders. In that capacity they could still feed information where it could do the most good, award grants and improve policies around the edges. Banaszak concludes that the sympathy of the Administration matters, but not as much as scholars have said it does. Insider feminists were quite creative in slipping through the cracks. more »
