Category: Systemic

• The Feminization of Poverty: Structural Traps, Policy Failures, and the Price Women Pay

  

  Structural traps, policy failures, and the price women pay In the wealthiest nation in recorded history, nearly 20 million women and girls live below the federal poverty line. That is not a rounding error. It is a structural feature — one built into the architecture of American economic life and reinforced, often unintentionally, by the…

  Tobi McMillan

  June 11, 2026

  Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance, Finance, Systemic, THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF, Women’s Rights

• Maternal Mortality in America: The Data Has a Race Problem

  

  How the United States became the deadliest developed nation for childbirth — and why Black women bear the heaviest burden A Number Behind Every Name Every year in the United States, hundreds of women die from causes directly related to or aggravated by pregnancy and childbirth. In 2023, that number was 669 — down from…

  Tobi McMillan

  June 6, 2026

  Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance, Healthcare, Systemic, THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF