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"As women, we have tremendous power. We control both sides of the cash register. We are the cashiers on one side and we are the customers on the other side. If we join hands across the cash register, we can change the economic future of women in America."

-- Susan Philips, Vice President, United Food and Commercial Workers

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Economy:

"Women's Economic Status in the States: Wide Disparities by Race, Ethnicity and Region"
Institute for Women's Policy Research
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"The American Woman Series"
Women's Research and Education Institute
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"Working Women Speak Out"
Business and Professional Women
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"Tracking the Progress of Women in Non-traditional Employment"
Institute for Women and Work, Cornell University
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Wage Gap:

"Women's Economic Status in the States: Wide Disparities by Race, Ethnicity and Region"
Institute for Women's Policy Research
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"Minimum Wage and Working Women"
Compiled by: Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University; Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute; Janet Currie, University of California Los Angeles; Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women's Policy Research; Lawrence Katz, Harvard University; Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota; Edward Montgomery, University of Maryland; Steven Raphael, University of California Berkeley; Cecilia Rouse, Princeton University
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Taxes:

"Taxes ARE a Women's Issue"
National Council for Research on Women
Panel discussion, June 2004
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"Impact of Tax Cuts on Local Communities"
National Council for Research on Women
Panel discussion, June 2004
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"How Taxes and Public Funding Affect Education and Girls' Programs"
National Council for Research on Women
Panel discussion, June 2004
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