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Right to Bear Arms Hits Home for Teen Girl Hunters
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These hunters in New Jersey are too young to make a point about gun control in the primaries but that doesn’t mean they’re not invested in the election.
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These hunters in New Jersey are too young to make a point about gun control in the primaries but that doesn’t mean they’re not invested in the election.
The Vermont senator’s $15 federal minimum wage proposal could be a big issue for voters in today’s Democratic primaries who have seen their incomes decline. “The financial pressures on women have been tremendous,” says a researcher in Ohio.
Child care for infants and toddlers is in short supply in most of the country. At the same time, providers lack training and are working long hours for low pay. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Planned Parenthood’s backing of the Democratic frontrunner is the first time the organization has endorsed a primary candidate in its 100-year history. NARAL is also making an early move. Both groups say that’s because it’s an extraordinary year.
Her emphasis on tax reduction, repeal of the Affordable Care Act and opposition to gun control may fall short Nov. 4 if women who support Democrat Bruce Braley’s kitchen-table economic policies turn out in force.
Georgia is a GOP stronghold of opposition to abortion and gun control. After the state’s passage of one of the country’s most permissive gun laws, that puts this U.S. House candidate right at the heart of her party.
Flying combat missions or directing platoons dispels voters’ doubts about female candidates, says one analyst. Martha McSally and Wendy Rogers both claim that advantage. First in a series on women tapped by the GOP’s Project GROW.
There are a growing number of Latinas, and other women of color, in office, defying expectations and explanations, says Christina E. Bejarano in this excerpt from “The Latina Advantage.”
A brand-new grain subsidy ration card that requires women be listed as head of the household is one boon. One beleaguered woman said the food security it brings her could be a means of escaping an abusive husband.
Virginia’s Women’s Strike Force stands out for battling back an abortion restriction last year and taking its movement into this year’s elections. But states such as Wisconsin show how the anti-abortion era remains ascendant.