PRESS ADVISORY For Immediate Release
Raleigh, NC, 1/21/19
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Join us at the Raleigh Women’s March and Rally! Our event is at Halifax Mall in Raleigh NC – Jan. 26, 2019, 12:30pm-4pm. Break out as follows:
The theme is Women United for Justice.
We’ll have great speakers and performers as always! Women’s and progressive organizations will have tables around for you to visit. More information at https://www.raleighwomensmarch.org/. See some of the speakers at Raleigh Women’s March Speakers.
Progressive organizations who want to table and/or sign up as community partners, can sign up here. Find the event on facebook at – https://www.facebook.com/events/1977975525601394/
How Trump Administration changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to Title X will hurt women, by NC NOW President Gailya Paliga.
Here are 3 things people may not realize about women and health insurance.
Photo Credit: Michael Eisenberg
How the ACA Stopped Insurance Companies from Cheating Women
Posted in ACA, discrimination, gender rating, health care, Obamacare, Obamacare, poverty, Rural women, Title X
Tagged ACA, discrimination, gender rating, health care, Obamacare, poor women, poverty, Rural women
A Congressional Committee has twisted the Farm Bill, H.R. 2, into a cruel and punitive bill that would take food assistance away from children, families, people with disabilities, older workers, low-wage workers, and those unable to find jobs.
The Farm Bill traditionally is a bipartisan effort every 5 years, but in this case not a single Democrat on the committee voted for it. This version pushed by Republicans on the House Agricultural Committee includes wide cuts and a reorganization of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as Food Stamps). The Farm Bill is up for a vote in the House on May 14, 2018 – so please take the easy actions to write your Congressperson NOW! Act now with the Budget and Tax Center action, or with MomsRising action. See more on actions at the end of the article.
Photo Credit: Michael Eisenberg
If Republicans in Congress have their way, millions of people who get food aid through SNAP will have to find a job or attend job training classes for about 20 hours each week, or lose their benefits. There are so many good reasons why people on the SNAP program can’t work, but another problem is we just don’t have the jobs or training programs in too many parts of NC.
Posted in food assistance, poverty, Rural women, Uncategorized
Tagged #HandsOffSnap, food assistance, poverty, SNAP
Fayetteville NOW’s Young Feminist Committee hosted their 3rd Blue Stocking Salon on January 27th, 2018. The topic of women in poverty drew the largest group yet! We discussed various studies and their results, personal experiences with social safety nets and anti-poverty activism as well as what we could do after the salon to act on what we learned.
The first point discussed was an analysis that estimated that if the wage gap was resolved, the number of women in poverty would decrease by half, what an astounding possibility asserted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research! We wondered if they studied the wage gap by comparing men and women in the exact same job or if they compared across similar job responsibilities, and concluded that while comparing the exact same job would yield more exact results, using the undervaluing of ‘women’s work’ instead of individual discrimination as a comparison tool is still effective.
Women In Poverty In America Data from National Women’s Law Center, Picture from Equal Means Equal
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Tagged economic justice, economic security, gender wage gap, poverty
Women are guaranteed equal rights under the law, right? No?!!
If you have not seen this important documentary, Equal Means Equal, now is your chance! If you’ve only seen it once, you may want to see it again. It shows us the real situation of women in the United States. Very intense. We will discuss afterward.
Date: Sat. Feb. 17th, 2018
Time: 10 am to 1 pm
Place: Chapel Hill Public Library
Reservations: Appreciated, Thru Eventbrite.
Cost: Free
Organized by Durham NOW
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Tagged Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, poverty, prison, women
The Equal Means Equal documentary is being shown in Smithfield, NC on December 4, 2017.
NC NOW President Gailya Paliga is speaking about the documentary and running a question and answer session after the screening of the film.
Date: Monday, Dec. 4, 2017
Time: 5:30pm-8pm
Place: Smithfield Library, 305 E. Market St., Smithfield NC
Room: Multipurpose Meeting Room, 2nd Floor
We have 3 actions to take on national issues. Oppose the House Budget which slashes trillions of dollars from healthcare, food and income assistance, education and more. Oppose HR 38 – giving domestic violence offenders the right to stalk and kill their intimate partners across state lines! Oppose HR 36 – another abortion ban.
Thank you to National Task Force to End Sexual & Domestic Violence and to National Women’s Law Center for the information.
Action Alert 1: Tell your Rep. to vote “NO” on the US House budget: it slashes trillions from Medicaid, Medicare, food and income assistance, education, housing and more. It takes the money to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, and for corporations!
Monday-Wednesday, Oct 2-4: Call Your Rep and Say NO!
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Tagged abortion, attacks on public education, education, health care, medicaid, medicare, poverty, reproductive rights, violence against women
Read more about Medicaid and the damage that Trumpcare will do in the following articles, among other places. People need to realize the devastation the Senate Trumpcare Bill has on women. In addition, North Carolina would fare the worst of any states in the country under Trumpcare.
Leaders from Feminist Majority, National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Women’s March on Washington came together today in Washington, D.C. to discuss the dangers posed by Trumpcare to women across race, class and age—and to devise a plan to stop it. These leaders are
Photo Credit: Feminist Majority
The devastation of Senate health care plan on North Carolina needs to be understood.
“If the Senate health care plan becomes law, no state’s residents would fare worse than North Carolina, according to a new study on the proposed bill. That includes 1.3 million people in North Carolina, according to a new study – the fourth-most in the nation, and the highest percentage of people losing coverage in any state.”
According to “1.3 million in NC could lose health insurance under Senate health plan,” 6/28/17, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article158456069.html.
These articles are on Medicaid and the damage that Trumpcare will do.
Posted in abortion, birth control, families, health care, jobs, labor, Medicaid, Obamacare, reproductive rights, tax giveaways, women
Tagged health, health care, medicaid expansion, poverty, reproductive rights, women
While even President Trump described the House Trumpcare bill as ‘mean,’ his colorful verdict is an uncommon understatement as it applies to the House and Senate bills’ treatment of women’s healthcare. Trumpcare is ‘cruel’ to women, and especially harsh to North Carolinians.
Trumpcare allows the elimination of women’s access to healthcare, letting insurance companies refuse to provide maternity care, slashing Medicaid payments (by $834 billion in the House bill/$772 billion in the Senate bill), and restricting Title X reimbursement. Medicaid is the nation’s public health insurance program for people with low incomes, the disabled and the elderly. The Medicaid program covers about 75 million Americans, or 1 in 5, including many with complex and costly needs for care. Seventy percent (70%) of the adults covered by Medicaid are women. Title X is a federal program which provides funding family planning services to people beyond Medicaid, like low-income women who are not Medicaid-eligible. Their recipients? Women.
The Senate Trumpcare bill will cut Medicaid by almost $1 trillion dollars (that’s trillion with a ‘t’). These policies have disproportionate and disastrous consequences for women – young, middle-aged, and elderly, alike – especially in North Carolina. More than half of all births in North Carolina are covered by Medicaid – 54% in North Carolina in 2014, while other states vary from 24% to 72%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Trumpcare allows insurance companies to refuse to cover maternity and newborn care as part of the 10 essential health benefits that insurance companies would no longer be required to cover.
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Tagged birth control, elderly, hospitals closing, nursing homes, Obamacare, poverty, Trumpcare, women
