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How Doubling the Workforce Doubled Government Revenue and Compressed the American Family SOLD AS: THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN Operational Pattern Beginning in the late 1960s and accelerating into the 1980s, cultural, political, and economic incentives pushed women into the full time workforce. The messaging framed this shift as empowerment, but the structural result was a dramatic increase in taxable labor. More workers meant more taxable hours. More taxable hours meant more state revenue without raising official tax rates. Observed Outcomes • Cost of living rose faster than wages • Dual income households became mandatory rather than optional • Time available...

President Donald Trump did the unthinkable Tuesday night during his State of the Union address: he inspired a phalanx of left-wing women members of Congress, wearing white in protest, to jump to their feet and applaud. Many female Democrats dressed in white, as they have for previous addresses by President Trump, in homage to the suffragettes — and in protest against a president whom they believe represents the antithesis of their aspirations. Some, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), frowned as Trump emphasized themes of compromise and national unity. But all — including her — rose in celebration as the...