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Critics say the U.K. budget will plunge thousands more women and children into poverty by limiting benefit increases and tax breaks. A nurse with two children and no co-earner would lose the equivalent of a month’s rent.
Chuck Hagel has reassured Sen. Barbara Boxer on two points of scrutiny surrounding his confirmation as secretary of defense: servicewomen’s abortion benefits and gays rights.
Women’s safety activists are calling on lawmakers to restore funding that they failed to allocate for the first time since the law was passed in 1994.