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DC’s Repeal of the #TamponTax Effective Today

October 1, 2018October 29, 2018

DC’s repeal of the feminine hygiene sales tax is effective today, October 1st, after a bill was passed in 2016 by the Council. The changes only now took effect as this is the first budget cycle that they were included in (for 2019). Read more via this story from WAMU.

DC's repeal of the #TamponTax finally takes effect today after two years of not being funded. Maybe next year the #DiaperTax? https://t.co/M8el1pDrug via @DCist

— Alison Weir (@weiram) October 1, 2018

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Georgia STOMP is thrilled to announce that Raising BeYOUtiful Butterflies has joined the #GeorgiaSTOMP coalition! @raisingbeyoutifulbutterflies “empowers girls ages 4-21 through mentoring, community service, building their self-confidence, and challenging them to discover and fulfill their potential. Their mission is to educate and empower girls by inspiring them to recognize and embrace their own potential to be confident, self-sufficient, unique, determined, and powerful in their lives as well as their communities, while encouraging sisterhood.” We couldn’t be more excited to have them lend their expertise to the coalition! ❤️🎊🎉🥳

Join 15 thought-leaders from many #GeorgiaSTOMP coalition member organizations for Marching Towards Menstrual Equity - a week from today! Join us from 6:30-8 pm on March 22 via Facebook Live. We can’t wait to learn alongside you.

You may have seen on our other social media channels the exciting announcement that @atlantaglow joined the #GeorgiaSTOMP coalition a few short weeks ago. We are thrilled and didn’t want to forget to tell you so here! Founded in 2014, Atlanta Growing Leadership Of Women's mission is to encourage, educate and equip young, low-income women to be thriving, self-sustaining leaders and effective agents of economic growth within their communities. Thank you for your work and leadership, #AtlantaGLOW!!

The #GeorgiaSTOMP 2021 Legislative Priorities are OUT! Over the coming days, look for additional details on our social media accounts. And follow the link in our bio to sign up for our weekly newsletter - with simple and effective action items to bring #menstrualequity and #endperiodpoverty in Georgia. #gapol

Has everyone sent a big ol’ #thankyou to @govkemp for his addition of $420k to the @georgiadeptofed AFY’21 budget for feminine hygiene products? 👏👏 That brings the total to $720k - getting closer to pre-pandemic levels of funding! #endperiodpoverty #menstrualequity #thankyou

What an honor to welcome this fantastic organization to the Georgia STOMP coalition table! @9to5georgia - we are so grateful for your work, and so excited to work together. 9to5 Georgia’s mission is to build a movement to achieve economic justice, by engaging directly affected women to improve working conditions. 9to5 Georgia is a statewide chapter of 9to5, National Association of Working Women. They are building an effective movement for change, using organizing, civic engagement, advocacy, coalition-building, and leadership development strategies to build power and change public policy for working women. #menstrualequity #endperiodpoverty

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