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28 Jan, 6 tweets, 9 min read
WATCH: Axios' @danprimack hosts a conversation on financial inclusion in the global economy, featuring @SenTinaSmith (D-Minn.) and @IWPResearch CEO @CNicoleMason.
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@danprimack @SenTinaSmith @IWPResearch @cnicolemason .@SenTinaSmith (D-Minn.): There’s an opportunity for us, as we are responding to the public health and economic emergency of COVID-19, to address systemic inequalities in things like home ownership, access to wealth, wage and employment inequality.
@danprimack @SenTinaSmith @IWPResearch @cnicolemason .@SenTinaSmith (D-Minn.): Addressing discrimination in financial services and creating more opportunities for people of color to get access to banking services, loans, access to capital is a big priority for us as we move into the majority in the Senate.
@danprimack @SenTinaSmith @IWPResearch @cnicolemason .@IWPResearch CEO @cnicolemason on how job losses reflect existing gender and racial inequities: “In December we saw that 140k jobs were lost. Men gained jobs, but women did not...I want to drill down a bit more: All the job losses were women of color, Black and Latina.”
@danprimack @SenTinaSmith @IWPResearch @cnicolemason .@IWPResearch CEO @cnicolemason: I think we need a clear strategy for reopening schools so that once they do open, they’re able to stay open, so that parents, mothers, can go back to work, and don’t have to have the uncertainty of schools closing again.
@danprimack @SenTinaSmith @IWPResearch @cnicolemason .@IWPResearch CEO @cnicolemason: Before the pandemic, women were suffering in silence, so many of us were juggling really high demand careers, but were still responsible for a majority of the caretaking responsibilities. And with the pandemic, that burden doubled and tripled.

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