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Yellen Can Help Women by Putting Fed on New Course

By Susan Feiner ● Uncategorized ● November 12, 2013

There are two big reasons to hope Janet Yellen zooms through her confirmation process. For one, she'll be the first woman to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve. For another, she's likely to help Americans reduce their consumer debts and gain jobs.

Europe: Beware Banks Bearing Micro-Loans for Poor

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● November 10, 2011

A few weeks back Susan Feiner spoke at a conference in Valladolid, Spain, to counter this week's micro-credit summit there. Austerity programs like those proposed for Europe, she says, are women's real nemesis, not the lack of tiny, high-priced loans.

Village Girls in India Discover Field-Hockey Kicks

By Susan Feiner & Renu Rakesh ● Arts & Culture ● September 15, 2011

An out-of-the way village in India has attracted an after-school field-hockey program run by a female player from Germany. At first the parents thought it was just for boys. But after a while that changed.

Women's Work Is Critical to National Jobs Recovery

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● September 7, 2011

As the U.S. waits to hear the particulars of Obama's latest jobs initiative tonight, Susan Feiner points out the importance of women's re-employment after almost a million cuts to the female-dominant public-sector work force.

GOP's Block-Grant Plan Merits the Chopping Block

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● May 25, 2011

Susan Feiner calls GOP lawmakers' craze to turn federally funded programs over to states through “block grant” payments a block-headed approach to cost control that will do great harm to women.

Cash-Hungry States Could Eat Up Food Stamps

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● April 28, 2011

The GOP budget proposal for 2012 moves the federal food stamp program to state control. That recklessly puts 44 million Americans and a disproportionate number of women at risk. It's wrong and costly to boot.

GOP's Attack on Child Labor Threatens Our Daughters

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● April 11, 2011

It's Equal Pay Day, a time to remember those 600 extra hours that women work each year to catch up with male wages. For female teens exploitation at work is advancing, as GOP lawmakers in several states try to relax child labor laws.

Scott Walker Undoes Decades of Women's History

By Susan Feiner ● Commentary ● March 28, 2011

Right smack dab in the middle of Women's History Month we've been treated to the spectacle of Wisconsin's new GOP Gov. Scott Walker taking apart public-sector workers' bargaining rights and women's labor gains in the process.

Paychecks Aren't Fair, That's Why We Need a Law

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● December 10, 2010

After U.S. senators declined to debate the Paycheck Fairness Act in November, Ann Michaud commended them for doing so in a Newsday opinion piece. Susan Feiner tackles Michaud's arguments, starting with her analysis of the wage-gap figure.

Women to Obama: Hands Off Social Security

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● September 24, 2010

Obama's discussion of the economy on CNBC last week included what Susan Feiner sees as an alarming reference to Social Security as an “entitlement.” In fact, it's a self-funded jobs insurance program that women can't afford to lose.

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