[URPE] Fwd: Don't let them Slash the Women's Bureau

[Laurie Nisonoff]

Folks.. not sure if folks know about this. Laurie Nisonoff

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Subject: 	Don't let them Slash the Women's Bureau
Date: 	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:03:33 -0400
From: 	AAUW Action Network <Advocacy at aauw.org>
Reply-To: 	AAUW Action Network <Advocacy at aauw.org>
To: 	Laurie Nisonoff <lnisonoff at hampshire.edu>



AAUW Action Network
*Don't let them Slash the Women's Bureau* 	

Take Action! <http://capwiz.com/aauw/utr/1/LJCIRNJNOK/DZNRRNKWVD/8078810581>


The economic outlook is improving, but there's no denying that many 
American women and families are still struggling to make ends meet. The 
Department of Labor's Women's Bureau has stood with women workers since 
1920 to help women weather recessions and depressions, and they're 
standing with us today.

*Tell your senators: Oppose the heavy proposed cuts to the Women's 
Bureau budget and staff!*

Since its founding almost 100 years ago, the Women's Bureau has helped 
represent and protect the needs of women in the workforce. In recent 
years, the Women's Bureau has worked to help women in economic 
transition obtain employment in high-growth and nontraditional 
occupations and improve their families' security and well-being. Yet the 
Obama administration's proposed fiscal year 2013 budget slashes funding 
for the Bureau by one-fifth and its full time employees by almost 40 
percent.

Help lead the charge for women in the workforce: Tell your senators the 
vital programs of the Women's Bureau should not be abandoned or 
undermined while women still face substantial and systemic inequalities 
at work. Ask her or him to oppose these steep cuts to the Bureau!

To send a message asking your senators to oppose cuts to the Women's 
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