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Title: Obama pledges more than $100 million towards girls and women of color
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Christian Science Monitor
URL Source: https://news.yahoo.com/obama-pledge ... rds-girls-women-182148027.html
Published: Nov 16, 2015
Author: Cathaleen Chen
Post Date: 2015-11-16 15:51:49 by Don
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Obama pledges more than $100 million towards girls and women of color The White House announced Friday $118 million worth of funding commitments towards economic and research initiatives, honing in on the inequalities faced by minority girls and women. . Christian Science Monitor By Cathaleen Chen 2 hours ago The White House has pledged more than $100 million toward the economic prosperity of girls and women of color. Announced at a summit Friday, President Obama’s investment echoes his 2014 “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative that poured $200 million into charities and private institutions to support young men of color. It has long been known that that young black men are at a higher risk for incarceration, death by homicide, and dropping out of high school. Less well known is that women face similar risks and discrepancies. Recommended: STEM Heroines: Math role models for girls For instance, young black women are much more likely to be arrested in school than their white peers. They face disproportionate rates of teen pregnancy and experience the widest pay gaps – 60 cents to every dollar that a white man makes. Although there has been progress in the overall success of women of color, the White House said in a press release, there is still a long way to go. “The growth in the number of businesses owned by black women outpaces that of all women-owned firms. Teen births are down, and high school graduation and college enrollment rates are up,” the statement reads. “However, opportunity gaps and structural barriers still remain.” The solution: A five-year funding initiative called Prosperity Together that devotes $100 million to low-income women, and an additional $18 million from a collection of research institutions called the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research to continue studying the living conditions of women and girls of color. Friday's summit featured an all-day panel forum with 30 speakers from various organizations. The forum, called “Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color,” took place at Wake Forest University and in conjunction with the release of a report with the same name by the the Council on Women and Girls. In the report, advocates cite the different opportunity gaps girls and women face in the United States, such as low participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. The report outlines five main goals on which the White House initiative is to focus, including reducing exclusionary school discipline practices such as suspension, offering emotional support to victims of abuse and trauma, incentivizing STEM education, sustaining reduced rates of teen pregnancy, and tackling economic obstacles. At 12 percent, black girls are suspended twice as often as white boys and six times more than white girls. Research has shown that punitive punishments such as at-home suspensions can cause lower graduation rates. Black girls also comprise a disproportionate number of arrests, many of which are the consequence of what's known as "the sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline.” To combat this issue, the report suggests more trauma-sensitive programming at youth organizations. As one of the guest speakers, Streetwise and Safe's Andrea Ritchie also shed some light on the inordinate police misconduct that minority women and LGBT communities face. "In 2010, sexual misconduct was the second-most reported form of police misconduct against women or LGBT people of color," she said. "Many of those violent acts take place in the context of calls for help." President Obama has spoke out against the inequalities of minority women before, addressing the Congressional Black Caucus in September. “When women of color aren’t given the opportunity to live up to their God-given potential, we all lose out on their talents; we’re not as good a country as we can be,” Obama said. “So we’re going to have to close those economic gaps so that hardworking women of all races, and black women in particular, can support families and strengthen communities and contribute to our country’s success.”
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#1. To: Don (#0)
And just WHERE is he getting this money? Did Congress authorize it? Is he taking it out of his Golf game budget, or Moochelle's vacation budget? The fag throws around OPM like it is water. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton
Does girls of color only mean black women? Asians, Latinas, and Arab women are of "color" too. But I'm not complaining. Pay 'er up!
Redheads have lots of color.
Sorry. Wrong color.
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It's ok. As long as they are minorities...
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He's getting the money from us. The Marxists are big on redistribution of money. They take it from you and give it to themselves.
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I wonder if there would be roars of outrage if the next president decided to give 200 million taxpayer dollars away to men and women of "no color" (crackas/AKA:White Debbils) to help them recover from all the damage Affirmative Action has done to them?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
WRONG! "People of color" make up the MAJORITY of the world's population. It is white people who are the minority. Not only that,but white people have always been the minority population of the world. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Im sure the Marxists would cry real tears, especially if taxes were raised on the minorities to pay for it.
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Might keep them off the street for a few days Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Aren't we talking about this country?
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But I thought he was into guys not girls/women?? Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
I don't think "they" are because all they do is whine about how de black mens dun been screwed all ober de wurld be de white debbils. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
But I thought he was into guys not girls/women?? Maybe he plans on being a woman after leaving the Off-White House,and getting into a lesbian relationship with Bruce Jenner. You know he's going to want a white bitch,just like it was said he preferred white boys when he went to the bathhouse in Chicago. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012) American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Well, the conversation was leaning toward this nation. I really don't care how the rest go.
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Status symbols in the Ghetto... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Announced at a summit Friday, President Obama’s investment echoes his 2014 “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative that poured $200 million into charities and private institutions to support young men of color. Not only are his policies geared toward paying back his voting demographic, it is also apparently skewed toward men. Go figure that a racist politician would also cater to men like a sexist. Give a brutha $200 mil, but only give a sista $100 mil. Next he will be pledging $500 million to the gay male minorities out there.
" Obama pledges more than $100 million towards girls and women of color "
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It's ok. As long as they are minorities...
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Obama pledges more than $100 million towards girls and women of color
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Aren't we talking about this country?
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Obama pledges more than $100 million towards girls and women of color
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You know he's going to want a white bitch, just like it was said he preferred white boys
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he White House has pledged more than $100 million toward the economic prosperity of girls and women of color.
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