Vicki Shabo
@vshabo.bsky.social
Policy, advocacy, and narrative maven fighting for a more gender-equitable world, with a focus on US work, family, and care policies and practices. Views are my own.
Courage that shouldn't be so rare. Love this!
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Courage that shouldn't be so rare. Love this!
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New America was thrilled to sponsor A Day of #UnreasonableConversation this year! @vshabo.bsky.social joined a panel on gender and empowerment, and we launched our new primer on how entertainment can move beyond outdated gender tropes.
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/43bK3NA
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/43bK3NA
October 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New America was thrilled to sponsor A Day of #UnreasonableConversation this year! @vshabo.bsky.social joined a panel on gender and empowerment, and we launched our new primer on how entertainment can move beyond outdated gender tropes.
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/43bK3NA
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/43bK3NA
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The Administration acknowledged that it will stop the survey that measures food insecurity, just as tariffs push up food prices and the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in July start to take effect. Congress must intervene to save these vital data. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Administration acknowledged that it will stop the survey that measures food insecurity, just as tariffs push up food prices and the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in July start to take effect. Congress must intervene to save these vital data. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
"Women get punished for having children and not having children." - Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman at event with Institute for Women's Policy Research & @tcfdotorg.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"Women get punished for having children and not having children." - Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman at event with Institute for Women's Policy Research & @tcfdotorg.bsky.social
Exciting to see #PaidLeave champs gather on the Hill today to recommit to the #FAMILYAct.
Here's an explainer about what's in bill -- and what US workers, families, and businesses could have access to, if only Congress would look at the evidence and take action.
www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
Here's an explainer about what's in bill -- and what US workers, families, and businesses could have access to, if only Congress would look at the evidence and take action.
www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Exciting to see #PaidLeave champs gather on the Hill today to recommit to the #FAMILYAct.
Here's an explainer about what's in bill -- and what US workers, families, and businesses could have access to, if only Congress would look at the evidence and take action.
www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
Here's an explainer about what's in bill -- and what US workers, families, and businesses could have access to, if only Congress would look at the evidence and take action.
www.newamerica.org/better-life-...
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3 fiesty MO reps (rayreed.bsky.social, Elizabeth Fuchs & Jeremy Dean) are protesting the GOP's effort to steal Kansas City's representation in Congress!
2k+ Missourians testified vs this unconstitutional power grab. Plz RT to support! @lauraannstl.bsky.social
youtu.be/v66yc0g-wtU?...
2k+ Missourians testified vs this unconstitutional power grab. Plz RT to support! @lauraannstl.bsky.social
youtu.be/v66yc0g-wtU?...
Three Missouri Democrats refuse to leave House floor
YouTube video by KRCG 13
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September 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
3 fiesty MO reps (rayreed.bsky.social, Elizabeth Fuchs & Jeremy Dean) are protesting the GOP's effort to steal Kansas City's representation in Congress!
2k+ Missourians testified vs this unconstitutional power grab. Plz RT to support! @lauraannstl.bsky.social
youtu.be/v66yc0g-wtU?...
2k+ Missourians testified vs this unconstitutional power grab. Plz RT to support! @lauraannstl.bsky.social
youtu.be/v66yc0g-wtU?...
It was an honor to write about #Hacks, which has been nominated for nine #EmmyAwards this year, and how the show searches for and delivers what women want: visibility, authenticity, autonomy, and voice.
Season 4 of Hacks blends sharp comedy with real questions about women’s lives and choices. The result resonated with audiences and Emmy voters alike.
What Do Women Really Want? HBO Max's 'Hacks' Has Some Ideas (and Nine Emmy Nominations)
HBO Max's Hacks is a show within a show: Late Night With Deborah Vance, the first late night show hosted by a woman.
msmagazine.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It was an honor to write about #Hacks, which has been nominated for nine #EmmyAwards this year, and how the show searches for and delivers what women want: visibility, authenticity, autonomy, and voice.
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They said we'll "get over it." We won't.
Congress has passed the largest cuts to care in history – gutting Medicaid, Medicare, and the #AffordableCareAct by more than one trillion dollars, in favor for tax cuts for billionaires.
We will not simply "get over" losing our care!
#ProtectMedicaid
Congress has passed the largest cuts to care in history – gutting Medicaid, Medicare, and the #AffordableCareAct by more than one trillion dollars, in favor for tax cuts for billionaires.
We will not simply "get over" losing our care!
#ProtectMedicaid
July 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
They said we'll "get over it." We won't.
Congress has passed the largest cuts to care in history – gutting Medicaid, Medicare, and the #AffordableCareAct by more than one trillion dollars, in favor for tax cuts for billionaires.
We will not simply "get over" losing our care!
#ProtectMedicaid
Congress has passed the largest cuts to care in history – gutting Medicaid, Medicare, and the #AffordableCareAct by more than one trillion dollars, in favor for tax cuts for billionaires.
We will not simply "get over" losing our care!
#ProtectMedicaid
Great news from California, where improved #PaidLeave benefits do what they are intended to: Let people take #TimeToCare for children and loved ones and themselves!
laist.com/news/educati...
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California increased paid family leave payments. Now more parents are taking advantage
Starting in January, the state offered more-generous leave benefits. Claims in the first two quarters this year were up about 16%, compared to the same time period last year.
laist.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Great news from California, where improved #PaidLeave benefits do what they are intended to: Let people take #TimeToCare for children and loved ones and themselves!
laist.com/news/educati...
laist.com/news/educati...
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Based on new CBO findings the number of uninsured resulting from the Senate bill is nearly 17 million -- more than the 16 million whom CBO found would lose coverage under the House bill. 🧵
June 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Based on new CBO findings the number of uninsured resulting from the Senate bill is nearly 17 million -- more than the 16 million whom CBO found would lose coverage under the House bill. 🧵
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NEW #PaidLeaveForAll report out today — more men are using paid parental leave than ever. In 8 of the 10 state paid leave programs in operation, men are taking more than 40% of paid leaves, and in some more than half. paidleaveforall.org/wp-content/u...
June 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW #PaidLeaveForAll report out today — more men are using paid parental leave than ever. In 8 of the 10 state paid leave programs in operation, men are taking more than 40% of paid leaves, and in some more than half. paidleaveforall.org/wp-content/u...
If political leaders could just encourage and fund care for one another instead of rolling tanks to DC to break our streets, things would be much better.
This is why we don't have universal paid leave
June 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If political leaders could just encourage and fund care for one another instead of rolling tanks to DC to break our streets, things would be much better.
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Secretary Chavez DeRemer’s attacks on the Women’s Bureau aren’t accidental, they’re part of a concerted effort by the Trump administration to disenfranchise women. Over the past 4 months, the admin has continuously rolled back women’s rights in the name of defending them. bsky.app/profile/gayl...
The Trump administration is hiding its attacks on women behind claims that it is “defending” them. President Trump and the GOP pose a serious threat to women’s economic security and reproductive rights. Here’s what’s happening and what we can do about it 🧵 www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Reducing women’s rights — in the name of protecting them — is central to Trump’s agenda
To sustain itself, authoritarianism dismantles women’s autonomy, writes Leigh Gilmore. The frequent consequence is that women are confined to domestic roles and at the mercy of male heads of household...
www.wbur.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Secretary Chavez DeRemer’s attacks on the Women’s Bureau aren’t accidental, they’re part of a concerted effort by the Trump administration to disenfranchise women. Over the past 4 months, the admin has continuously rolled back women’s rights in the name of defending them. bsky.app/profile/gayl...
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TCF Senior Fellow @gaylegoldin.bsky.social tells @motherjones.com about the Trump administration's defunding of the Women's Bureau at the Dept. of Labor, and how it signifies their deeper intentions on gender roles.
"It really feels like a specific effort to get women out of the workplace."
"It really feels like a specific effort to get women out of the workplace."
Trump wants to eliminate a 105-year-old office that supports women
Staffers see the proposal as part of an effort to fundamentally reshape America's workforce.
www.motherjones.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
TCF Senior Fellow @gaylegoldin.bsky.social tells @motherjones.com about the Trump administration's defunding of the Women's Bureau at the Dept. of Labor, and how it signifies their deeper intentions on gender roles.
"It really feels like a specific effort to get women out of the workplace."
"It really feels like a specific effort to get women out of the workplace."
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In which our advisor @vshabo.bsky.social totally debunks Youngkin’s whole rationale for vetoing the paid leave passed in the legislature and supported by Virginians across party lines. virginiaindependentnews.com/politics/gov...
May 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In which our advisor @vshabo.bsky.social totally debunks Youngkin’s whole rationale for vetoing the paid leave passed in the legislature and supported by Virginians across party lines. virginiaindependentnews.com/politics/gov...
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Gov. Josh Shapiro has a chance to make history by backing the Family Care Act—a bill that would make PA the first swing state with paid family and medical leave.
81% of voters (including 67% of GOP) support it, via @rwest817.bsky.social and @gaylegoldin.bsky.social.
81% of voters (including 67% of GOP) support it, via @rwest817.bsky.social and @gaylegoldin.bsky.social.
Shapiro’s silence on paid family leave stands in stark contrast with Democratic rivals. What gives? | Opinion
While other rising-star governors like Tim Walz, Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, and JB Pritzker have expanded paid leave in their states, Josh Shapiro has stayed silent on Pa.'s Family Care Act.
www.inquirer.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Gov. Josh Shapiro has a chance to make history by backing the Family Care Act—a bill that would make PA the first swing state with paid family and medical leave.
81% of voters (including 67% of GOP) support it, via @rwest817.bsky.social and @gaylegoldin.bsky.social.
81% of voters (including 67% of GOP) support it, via @rwest817.bsky.social and @gaylegoldin.bsky.social.
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“The real crisis is one of care… The answer to the real crisis is not what we can gut and burn and take away from people, but what we can give them, the world we can create.” My piece in @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
We're worrying about the wrong thing. Low birth rate isn't the crisis: Child care is. | Opinion
Making more babies by threat, faux incentives, or even force is not a goal or a solution. And it ignores the desperate, real needs of families.
www.usatoday.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“The real crisis is one of care… The answer to the real crisis is not what we can gut and burn and take away from people, but what we can give them, the world we can create.” My piece in @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Medicaid cuts = skipped doctor visits, missed developmental screenings and fewer mental health services for parents and children. Medicaid cuts drown people in red tape to keep coverage and strip healthcare from those who qualify.
Tell Congress: #NoMedicaidCuts
Tell Congress: #NoMedicaidCuts
May 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Medicaid cuts = skipped doctor visits, missed developmental screenings and fewer mental health services for parents and children. Medicaid cuts drown people in red tape to keep coverage and strip healthcare from those who qualify.
Tell Congress: #NoMedicaidCuts
Tell Congress: #NoMedicaidCuts
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The House Ways and Means tax bill released today is skewed in favor of rich people, is even more costly than the original 2017 law, and fails to deliver for working-class families and small businesses.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
May 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The House Ways and Means tax bill released today is skewed in favor of rich people, is even more costly than the original 2017 law, and fails to deliver for working-class families and small businesses.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
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The House Ag bill released tonight would take away or cut #SNAP food benefits for millions of low-income people struggling to afford groceries—families w/ children, seniors, ppl w/ disabilities, veterans & workers in low-wage jobs.
May 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The House Ag bill released tonight would take away or cut #SNAP food benefits for millions of low-income people struggling to afford groceries—families w/ children, seniors, ppl w/ disabilities, veterans & workers in low-wage jobs.
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UPDATE: Despite the government's efforts, a federal judge is allowing our case to move forward to keep DOGE from accessing Americans' personal data across three agencies (Labor, HHS, CFPB) to continue. We will continue to hold DOGE accountable in court.
April 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
UPDATE: Despite the government's efforts, a federal judge is allowing our case to move forward to keep DOGE from accessing Americans' personal data across three agencies (Labor, HHS, CFPB) to continue. We will continue to hold DOGE accountable in court.
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The 3rd in the WMC Beverly Wettenstein History Lecture Series premiered online on March 31, during #WHM, & was delivered by Anushay Hussain on the systemic exclusion of women in American healthcare history. She was later joined in convo by @vshabo.bsky.social: womensmediacenter.com/about/events...
April 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The 3rd in the WMC Beverly Wettenstein History Lecture Series premiered online on March 31, during #WHM, & was delivered by Anushay Hussain on the systemic exclusion of women in American healthcare history. She was later joined in convo by @vshabo.bsky.social: womensmediacenter.com/about/events...
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The changes and chaos at SSA hurt all people who rely on its services, but - no surprise - disproportionately harm low-income older adults of color. My @justiceinaging.org colleague @traceygro.bsky.social unpacks why in this piece from Mother Jones.
New from me at @motherjones.com: Attacks on Social Security disproportionately harm retirees of color, as SS is more likely to be their own source of income (vs. IRA, pension etc). www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Republicans' Social Security attacks disproportionately harm retirees of color
Trump and Musk's fake fraud stories are doing real harm—especially if you're not white and wealthy.
www.motherjones.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The changes and chaos at SSA hurt all people who rely on its services, but - no surprise - disproportionately harm low-income older adults of color. My @justiceinaging.org colleague @traceygro.bsky.social unpacks why in this piece from Mother Jones.
As the Pennsylvania Legislature gets back to work on a bipartisan paid family and medical leave proposal this week, let's review the reasons #PaidLeave benefits workers, families, businesses, and the economy and makes PA competitive with nearby states.
www.cityandstatepa.com/opinion/2024...
www.cityandstatepa.com/opinion/2024...
Paid family leave is the right answer for PA families – and the commonwealth itself
Providing such a benefit will make the state a leader in the nation and even more attractive to young families.
www.cityandstatepa.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As the Pennsylvania Legislature gets back to work on a bipartisan paid family and medical leave proposal this week, let's review the reasons #PaidLeave benefits workers, families, businesses, and the economy and makes PA competitive with nearby states.
www.cityandstatepa.com/opinion/2024...
www.cityandstatepa.com/opinion/2024...