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Via ACLU:

BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the #Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.

We have a right to #abortion care and we will vote for it.

Exactly 14 years ago today—on July 24, 2009—the minimum wage was set at $7.25 while top 1% were worth $5T. Today, billionaire wealth is $45T+, meanwhile the min wage is still $7.25.

This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage

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My whole family benefited greatly from an affirmative action program for white people: the WW2 version of the GI bill. The extended family as a whole went from auto workers in the 1940's to white collar professionals later on. I can trace all that directly back to the GI bill after WW2.

The post-WW2 GI bill would be a good place to start reparations for Americans descended from slaves. It is well documented who was left out & missed out on the family wealth building. That is easily traceable.