The link between poverty and (mis)education

When it comes to economic inequality, and the cycle of poverty, I have been researching at my internship (New Haven Reads) how the lack of proper education contributes to the cycle of poverty. Specifically, the lack of suitable education, or education at all, provided for women creates a cycle of illiteracy, which results in the …

Ladies? Check your zip code

If the new president and his minions succeed in repealing Obamacare to replace it with…uh…we’ll they’ll have to get back to us on that, but: If they take away contraceptive coverage, they’re going to be angering more than a few of their constituents. From Kaiser Family Foundation: For the first time, the ACA set federal preventive …

Are you being harassed online?

TrollBusters has some answers. If that’s as impossible to read on your screen as it is on mine, go here.

Women should patent their ideas more

Although data is hard to come by, a new Institute for Women’s Policy Research study says that women are far less likely than men to file for patents. Here’s more on the first U.S. woman to earn a patent, Mary Kies.

Ladies? Guess who bears the brunt of Trump’s version of Obamacare?

You do. I wrote this for CT Health Investigative team.

Once more, with feeling. We have to fight back.

I wrote this for Mother Courant. It has Isabella in it.

Tomorrow, we vote!

How much should you be making?

Leftover sends this, a cool interactive chart from Economic Policy Institute. Come to find out, I’m underpaid.

Christian women revolt against pro-Trump pastors

“Trump has not offered true repentance.” Bless you, my sisters. And thanks, Cynical, for sending this.

Oh, FFS

Despite the recent good economic news — for some, anyway — women will not achieve pay equity for another 136 years. So that means that if I eat my greens, exercise daily, and keep up with my prayers, I will STILL BE DEAD BEFORE THIS HAPPENS GODDAMMIT.