Whitmer signs bill axing ‘tampon tax’

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Thursday signed into law the first bill in a package eliminating the tax on menstrual products.

Bills axing ‘tampon tax’ sail through House committee

Two bills aimed at ending taxes on menstrual products on Thursday passed through the House Tax Policy Committee.

Women have been waiting almost a century for the ERA. Will it finally become law?

Now that the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure to eliminate a critical deadline associated with the seminal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) is hopeful that the legislation — decades in the making — will move forward.

Column: Women are society’s invisible infrastructure, but they’re often underpaid and undervalued

Infrastructure is important for everyone. We need a strong public system for roads and transportation, for drinking water, for energy. And when that system is neglected, we all bear the burden as a society.

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Whitmer signs bill axing ‘tampon tax’

Bills axing ‘tampon tax’ sail through House committee

Women have been waiting almost a century for the ERA. Will it finally become law?

Column: Women are society’s invisible infrastructure, but they’re often underpaid and undervalued