Janice Schakowsky
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Janice D. Schakowsky is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 9th congressional district since 1999. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for various progressive issues, including healthcare reform, women's rights, and consumer protection. Schakowsky has played a significant role in shaping policies related to social justice and economic equality throughout her tenure in Congress.
They see this, I see this as State-sponsored child abuse, I would say even State-sponsored kidnapping, children being taken away from their parents, hundreds, maybe thousands of children.
One out of five American children is considered food insecure. That is scandalous, I think.
This budget envisions really, I think, a radically different America than I believe most Americans can and want to envision.
The budget before us cuts Medicaid by $1.5 trillion before really, in my view, cannibalizing it by converting it into a block grant.
The female share of computer science degrees has actually dropped from 28 percent to 18 percent between 1993 and 2016.
Just 31 percent of the employees at Facebook are women, and that's also true at Apple.
The fact that there are a number of empty chairs is not indicative of lack of interest in what you are saying.
The number of women who work in technical roles at these companies is even lower.





