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Diana Boesch: According to Trump during the debate last night, everything is great! I saw Trump lying, blatantly ignoring the facts about how the country is doing; this is one of the worst economies for women--we need to pay attn to that.
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Diana Boesch:This is the 1st recession where service sector jobs are the jobs we've lost. Previously it was production/manufacturing jobs. Because of the coronavirus, we can't be together indoors, & that's why service sector jobs, performed by women, are lost
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Diana Boesch: A lot of the relief measures from the spring stimulus package expired over the summer. Women are the ones to suffer; they are the ones whose jobs are not coming back. They have the bulk of child-rearing responsibilities & need the relief pkgs.
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Diana Boesch: Before the pandemic, we were asking women to juggle both working & child-rearing. We asked them to make it work, find the balance, w/o paid sick days or help w/ childcare. It fell apart during the pandemic.
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Diana Boesch: Low-wage work can be essential work. That work should be rewarded & those workers protected. We need to value the work they do by providing them a living wage & workplace protections.
Rick: I saw essential workers, especially, need unions. #1u
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Diana Boesch: Unions can go a long way to help fix problems. Conditions are deplorable, workers don't have the protections they need, & employers can fire workers for not showing up when they're sick. #1u #Unions
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Diana Boesch: There's lots of economic research that shows that even the extra $600 didn't dissuade people from going to work. People want to work.
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Diana Boesch: Women of color are on the front line of this pandemic. They're doing the essential work; they're in low-wage jobs. They've also lost employment since the pandemic began. Hispanic women had an unemployment rate of 20%; black women 11%.
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Diana Boesch: Trump's claim to be the best president since Abe Lincoln for people of color was ridiculous.
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Diana Boesch: The Trump admin has hurt women, even before the pandemic began. For example, changing overtime rules, lowering the threshold to about $35,000, & not tying it to inflation. He also rolled back equal pay protection laws.
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Diana Boesch: We know that the ration of women's earnings to men has not changed in years; it's stayed about $0.82 to the dollar. We need to ensure that women are paid fairly.
Rick: Unions are the beginning to solving this problem.#1u
Diana: Unions can ensure fair pay
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Diana Boesch: The Trump admin is harming women in the courts, too.
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Diana Boesch: The first & most important thing we need to do is to control the virus. We need contact tracing; we need people to wear masks; we need to support businesses & make sure workers can take care of their families. We need to protect workers.
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Diana Boesch is a co-author of:
americanprogress.org/issues/economy…

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