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SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1995
FINAL
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7:00 am
DEPART The White House South Portico
EN ROUTE Andrews AFB
[drive time: 25 minutes]
7:25 am
ARRIVE Andrews AFB
7:35 am
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FLIGHT TIME: 3 HOURS, 30 MINUTES [-2]
9:05 am
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Greeters: Governor Romer
Mayor Wellington Webb and Wilma Webb
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1995
PAGE 2
9:15 am
DEPART Airport
EN ROUTE Mi Casa Resource Center for Women
[drive time: 45 minutes]
10:00 am
ARRIVE Mi Casa Resource Center for Women
571 Galapago Street
Phone: 303-573-1302
Fax: 303-595-0422
HRC Hold: Executive Director's Office
Staff Hold: Associate Executive Director's Office
Greeters:
Luz Cofresi-Howe, Dir. Business Center for Women
Barbara Des Marteau - Executive Director
NOTE:
On arrival, Betsy Myers and Lynn Cutler will depart
from traveling party.
NOTE:
Lt. Governor Gail Schoettler will meet HRC at site.
NOTE:
Due to extreme space limitations, only HRC, Confrese-
Howe, and Des Marteau will proceed to classroom. All
staff and guests should proceed directly to discussion
site on second floor.
10:05 am-
10:20 am
OBSERVE PROJECT SUCCESS
Training Room A, 1st Floor
POOL PRESS
PARTICIPANTS:
-HRC
-Luz Cofresi-Howe
-Barbara Des Marteau
-Agnes Talamantez, Facilitator
-16 students
FORMAT:
-- HRC is escorted to classroom by Luz Cofresi-
Howe and Barbara Des Marteau
--
HRC enters room and is acknowledged by Agnes
Talamantez
--
HRC is seated and observes classroom
discussion on how to prepare to join the
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1995
PAGE 3
business world
-- HRC participates briefly in classroom
discussion and then departs
10:20 am-
10:25 am
GIFT PRESENTATION
Lobby
CLOSED PRESS
PARTICIPANTS:
-HRC
-Joan Bolduck
-Laura Espinoza
-Sylvia Montero
FORMAT: HRC is presented gifts by 3 center
graduates.
10:25 am-
10:30 am
HOLD - HRC puts on lav
10:30 am-
11:15 am
DISCUSSION
2nd Floor
OPEN PRESS
PARTICIPANTS:
Facilitator: Wendy Krajewski-Kenar - Program
Specialist, Business Center for Women
9 Panelists ( see briefing for more information) :
Audience: 25 - Board Members, Mi Casa Staff and
HRC traveling party
FORMAT:
-- Wendy Krajewski-Kenar intros HRC
-- HRC speaks briefly
Each panel participant gives brief remarks
-
-- Discussion
-- Following discussion, HRC will depart
SCHEDULE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1995
PAGE 4
11:15 am
DEPART Mi Casa Resource Center
EN ROUTE Denver Convention Center
[drive time: 15 minutes]
11:30 am
ARRIVE Denver Convention Center
700 14th Street
Phone: 303-640-8000
Fax: 303-640-8799
HRC Hold: Backstage Area 1
HRC PHONE: 303-446-4262
HRC FAX: 303-446-4263
Staff Hold: Backstage Area 2
Greeters: Betsy Considine, President WFC
Katherine Peck, President-elect WFC
Merle Chambers, WFC Board Member
11:30 am-
12:00 pm
RECEPTION
Backstage Area 3
CLOSED PRESS
PARTICIPANTS: Approx. 40 people will be present.
FORMAT:
-- HRC arrives and gives brief greetings
-- Carol Kierney, Colorado Women's Foundation
Member (and Welsley classmate), will escort
HRC through photo/receiving line with approx.
40 guests
-- Guests depart for luncheon after greeting HRC
-- HRC and Betsy Considine proceed to dias
12:00 pm-
1:30 pm
LUNCHEON SPEECH - WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO
Denver Convention Center Exhibition Hall
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1995
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PARTICIPANTS: Approx. 3,000 people will be
present.
DIAS SEATING: see briefing
FORMAT:
--
Bertha Lynn, Master of Ceremonies, announces
HRC and Betsy Considine
--
Bertha Lynn welcomes and gives introductory
remarks
--
Lunch is served
--
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-- Ambassador Swanee Hunt intros HRC
--
HRC speaks
--
Bertha Lynn gives brief closing remarks as
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1:30 pm-
2:15 pm
PRIVATE MEETING w/Governor Romer
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2:20 pm
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(b)(6)
[001]
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2:50 pm-
4:00 pm
ARRIVE DOWN TIME
4:00 pm
DEPART Down Time
4:35 pm
ARRIVE Denver International Airport
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NOTE: Ambassador Hunt will rejoin traveling party at airport.
4:40 pm
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FLIGHT TIME: 1 hour and 10 minutes [+1]
6:50 pm
WHEELS DOWN Salina, KS - - Salina Municipal Airport
FBO: Jerry Moore's Midway Aviation
Phone: 913-825-6261
CLOSED PRESS ARRIVAL
6:55 pm-
7:40 pm
REFUEL
[45 minutes]
7:45 pm
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FLIGHT TIME: 2 hours and 25 minutes [+1]
11:10 pm
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11:15 pm
DEPART Andrews AFB
EN ROUTE White House
[drive time: 25 minutes]
11:40 pm
ARRIVE White House South Portico
RON
The White House
WEATHER FORECAST FOR DENVER, CO: Sunny skies and breezy by
afternoon. Wind southerly at 10 to 15 mph. Low temperature 60
degrees. High temperature 101 degrees.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WASHINGTON, DC: Mostly cloudy skies, humid
and hazy. Wind southwesterly at 8 to 12 mph. Low temperature 76
degrees. High temperature 91 degrees.
July 25, 1995
MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN
DATE:
July 26, 1995
TIME:
10:00 am
LOCATION:
Denver, CO
FROM:
Brenda Costello
I.
PURPOSE
To tour and participate in a discussion at the Mi Casa Resource Center for Women in
order to highlight the importance of such community-based programs.
II.
BACKGROUND
Mi Casa Resource Center for Women
Mi Easa Resource Center for Women is a community-based organization that seeks
to provide quality educational and employment services that promote economic
independence for low-income, predominantly minority women and girls in the
Westside area of Denver - one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city. The Center
was founded in 1976 by eight Head Start mothers attempting to realize their dreams
of going back to school, obtaining good-paying jobs, supporting their families without
welfare, being self-sufficient.
Mi Casa targets low-income, mostly Hispanic women and girls and provides services
to increase awareness of career options, motivate women to prepare for better paying
careers, and provides academic, vocational and job-search training.
Mi Casa has been held up as an example of success both in the Colorado and
nationally. The center has received numerous awards since its founding, including
The 1991 Minority Advocate of the Year by the Minority Enterprise Development,
and its Business Center for Women was rated as a top demonstration site in 1992 by
the U.S. Small Business Administration's independent evaluator.
Mi Casa's Programs
Mi Casa's programs are organized into three broad categories: Adult, Entrepreneurial
(The Business Center for Women) and Youth Services.
Adult Services
Esperanza (Hope) - provides individual case management and job placement
guidance.
Health Careers - provides specific training for women entering the health
career field.
Mi Camino (My Road) -- targets teenage single mothers
Entrepreneurial Services - Business Center for Women
Evening Entrepreneurial Training Program
Project Success
MicroLending Programs
Youth Services
Fenix program - designed to prevent teenage pregnancy and STD/HIV
infection among Denver youth using peer educators.
Mi Carrera program - addresses the dropout issue in local Denver schools, and
seeks to increase the number of young Hispanic women to continue on to
college.
Adult Service programs give women the tools to achieve economic self-sufficiency
through individualized career counseling and development, job readiness training,
and job placement. In addition, literacy training is incorporated into all aspects of
Adult Service programs, providing the skills needed to obtain and keep a job.
Entrepreneurial Services are provided through the Business Center for Women
(BCW), which was founded in 1990 through a grant from the Small Business
Administration (SBA). There are three programs within the Business Center which
attempt to help women start their own businesses. The Evening Entrepreneurial
Training program provides entrepreneurial skills training, individual assistance,
networking opportunities and support. The goal is self-sufficiency through economic
empowerment. The Project Success program provides more intensive entrepreneurial
skills training, as well as life-skills training, for women on public assistance.
The MicroLending programs give women access to capital through micro-loans, and
provides ongoing technical assistance to all BCW clients to ensure success. The Circle
Loan project was based on the model of women pooling their money and taking
turns borrowing. The women serve as collateral for each other's loans, and a bank is
involved, with loans beginning at $500 to $2,000 for the first loan and up to $5,000 on
the second loan. Women targeted for this program are mostly Hispanic, have not
been in or don't fit in corporate jobs, and who receive public assistance or have been
economically devastated by divorce. In 1995, the BCW began offering microloans to
individuals with the same loan amounts as The Circle Loan Project.
Youth service programs attempt to intervene in the poverty cycle at its beginning,
during critical teen years. Two programs are offered, the Fenix program and the Mi
Carrera program (described below).
Since 1990, the Business Center for Women has served over 2,000 clients and
provided assistance to women who have started over 200 new businesses.
Funding
Almost all current funding is federal, with some private foundation matching funds
(approx. 20%) and includes:
1994-95 SBA Grant - $70,000
1992-95 HHS Grant - $500,000
1994 Colorado National Bank - $10,000
(See attached memo on SBA funding for details.)
Event Format
PROJECT SUCCESS CLASS
Your first stop at Mi Casa Resource Center will be the Project Success class, part of
the Entrepreneurial Services in the Business Center for Women at Mi Casa. The class
is predominately minority, mostly Hispanic women, all of whom receive some type
of public assistance.
You will join the discussion in progress, where the students/participants will be
addressing self-esteem issues, and why they want to be entrepreneurs. The format is
a lively, interactive discussion with Facilitator/Teacher Agnes Talamantez-Carrol,
who serves as the facilitator (see list of participants). The class is in its first week
(third class) of the standard eleven-week session, which meets for 5 hours daily.
You will receive a hand-out on the objectives for the day when you join the class.
The tables will be in a horse-shoe, with the facilitator at the front of the room. You
will be seated at a table amongst the other class participants toward the front of the
room.
GIFT PRESENTATION
Following the Project Success class, there will be a brief gift presentation by three
Business Center for Women participants who have produced the gifts as part of their
businesses. The three women are Joan Bolduck, Laura Espinoza, and Sylvia Montero.
You will be presented with a SOCKS Cat Snax Jar, a Chili Pepper Item, and a
Commemorative Poster.
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH EVENING ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAM:
You will join the Evening Entrepreneurial Training Program (EETP) for a panel
discussion. Wendy Krajewski-Kenar will introduce you and you will greet the panel
briefly. Each panel participant gives brief remarks, then you will lead the discussion.
The EETP is an eight-week program meets weekly for four hours a night. Wendy
Krajewski-Kenar, the Program Specialist, normally teaches the program (profile
attached).
Tables for the discussion will be set up in a semi-circle. You will be seated in the
middle with the participants seated on either side of you. The facilitator will be
seated at the last table on the left, at the end of the semi-circle.
Note: Lt. Governor Gail Schoettler (D) will meet you at the site. She has no formal
role in the event.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Project Success
-HRC
-Luz Cofresi-Howe, Director, Mi Casa Business Center for Women
-Barbara DesMarteau, Executive Director, Mi Casa Resource Center for Women
-Agnes Talamantez-Carrol, Program Specialist, Project Success
-16 students (see attached list)
Gift Presentation
-HRC
-Joan Bolduck
-Laura Espinoza
-Sylvia Montero
Evening Entrepreneurial Program Panel Discussion
-HRC
-Wendy Krajewski-Kenar, Program Specialist, EETP, Business Center for Women
-Evening Entrepreneurial Program Participants (see complete list attached)
-Board Members
-Mi Casa staff
Note: Annette Quintana, who will participate in the EETP panel discussion, is one
success story of the program. She grossed half a million dollars in her first year of
business, Excel Professional Services.
IV.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Project Success
HRC escorted into classroom by Luz Cofresi-Howe and Barbara DesMarteau
HRC enters room and is acknowledged by Agnes Talamantez
HRC is seated in classroom and observes class discussion
HRC participates briefly in classroom discussion and then departs
Gift Presentation
HRC is presented gifts
Evening Entrepreneurial Panel Discussion
Wendy Krajewski-Kenar introduced HRC
HRC speaks briefly
Panel participants give brief remarks
Discussion
HRC departs
V.
PRESS
Project Success
Pool press.
Gift Presentation
Closed press.
Evening Entrepreneurial Panel Discussion
Open press.
VI.
REMARKS
Project Success
Discussion only.
Gift Presentation
Presentation only.
Evening Entrepreneurial Panel Discussion
Talking points attached (prepared by Betsy Myers).
MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER
Board of Directors (Attending Members):
Marta Crespin, Marketing, US West
Ramona Martinez, Board Search Committee, Denver City Councilwoman, District #3
Denise Maes, Associate Attorney, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll
Charlotte Rael-Vigil, Board President, Advertising, Rocky Mountain News
Lawrence Manzanares, Board Advisor, Judge, City and County of Denver
Rosemary Rodriguez, Director of Scheduling, City of Denver, Office of the Mayor
Joyce Martinez, Executive Director, Denver Educational Network
Anne Trujillo, ,Board Secretary, News Broadcaster, KMGH-TV Channel 7
Staff:
Barbara J. DesMarteau, Executive Director, Mi Casa Resource Center for Women
Luz L. Cofresi-Howe, Director, Business Resource Center for Women
Wendy Krajewski-Kenar, Program Specialist, Evening Entrepreneurial Training
Program for the Business Center for Women
Agnes Talamantez-Carrol, Program Specialist, Project Success
Rosalie Ronshaugen-Sanchez, Business Center for Women Program Assistant
Additional Staff:
Gina Jaramillo
Brenda Palms
Sharon McFarland
Alice Daly
Sylvia Montero
Carolynn Morones
Stephanie Herrera
Deborah Trujillo
Barbara Bennett
Olga Gonzalez
Anthony Barros
Susan Medina
Margaret Mora
Gayle Misevic
Johanna Leyba
Linda Hernandez
Maria (M.E.) Morreo
Anna Rodriguez
Kim Donovan
Martha Torres-Recinos
Evening Entrepreneurial Discussion Participants (EETP):
Mercedes Hernandez, EETP, Desktop Publishing
Luisa Hechevarrias, Project Success, Car Glass Repair and Replacement
Annette Quintana, EETP, Computer Services
Victoria Quintana, EETP, Computer Services
Elizabeth Salas, EETP, Nightclub Entertainment
Jennifer Croft, EEPT, Marketing Instructior for Evening Entrepreneurial
Gayle Huntsman, Circle Loan Project, Business Center for Women, Contact with
Colorado National Bank
Phyllis Cano, Project Success, Pretty Cakes
Ceo Ortiz, Former Executive Director Mi Casa, Director Colorado Women's Business
Office
Wendy Krajewski-Kenar, EETP, EETP Program Specialist
Project Success Participants:
Rechell Davis
Dalene Sanders
Solome Morales
Cheryl Wayne
Monica Armijo
Shira Steinberg
Darin Calnimptewa
LaVeda S. Smith
Victoria Parker
Christine Torres
Jacqueline Jackson
La Vader Easterling
Maria Caballero
Charlotte Weems
Katherine Johnson
Cecelia Tolson
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instruments dealership. a management consulting/training firm and a marketing group. She
has seventeen years' experience in the non-profit sector.
Agnes is the coordinator and trainer for Project Success' intensive (220 hours) entrepreneurial
curriculum. Agnes provides case management and technical assistance to all Project Success
clients, along with other program activities.
Rosalie Sanchez-Ronshaugen is the Business Center for Women Program Assistant. She
has owned her own successful food service business for the past two years. With over thirty-
one years' experience in small business, she brings her knowledge in retail and consumer
sales, service, research and marketing.
Rosalie is responsible for the overall marketing of Business Center for Women services. She is
also responsible for client intake and Initial assessment, along with monthly client case
management for Project Success. In addition Rosalie shares the Microlending Program
responsibilities with Luz L. Cofresi-Howe.
Talking Points for the First Lady's Visit to Mi Casa
1) Women are going into business in record numbers.
Women owned businesses are one of the fastest growing segments of our economy.
During the Clinton Administration, women owned businesses have grown from 6.5
million in 1992 to 7.7 million in 1995.
Women business owners are starting businesses at twice the rate of their male
counterparts; constituting one-third of all businesses and 15% of all receipts. In 1995,
women owned businesses will add $1 trillion in gross sales into the economy.
By the year 2000, it is anticipated that women will own nearly half of all U.S.
companies.
Women owned firms are found in every industrial sector, from services to
manufacturing.
This growing segment of the economy has provided 15.5 million jobs, one-third more
than the Fortune 500 companies world-wide.
2) Continuing problems for women business owners:
Women still can not get access to capital. 70% of women owned businesses rely on
credit cards and personal resources for capital.
Women do not have adequate access to information and technical assistance. This is
why the Women's Demonstration Sites are so important.
3) Why are women becoming entrepreneurs?
The Glass Ceiling. 95% of senior management in Fortune 500 and 1000 industrial
companies are white males.
Women want more freedom and flexibility in their daily lives.
Women want to make the money they are worth. According to the Glass Ceiling
Commission, women only make $.74 for every $1.00 men make.
4) In this Administration, we support women-owned businesses.
We have increased funding for demonstration sites from $1.5 million to $4 million..
We are opening 19 new sites, this means that there will be a total of 56.
Mi Casa was one of the original demonstration sites from the 1988 Women's Business
Ownership Act.
These sites are funded for three years with federal dollars, and then are on their own to
survive within the community.
TO:
Mrs. Clinton
FROM:
Brenda Costello
RE:
Denver statistics
The following statistics were compiled from various studies on poverty and child support:
Latino children made up more than half of all Denver's poor children in 1989, even
though Latino children comprised just 37 percent of the city's total population of
children.
In 1989, women comprised slightly more than 55 percent of Denver's poor population,
but only 51.5 percent of the total population.
In 1989, the Denver metro-area poverty rate for women was 10.9 percent; for men it
was 8.8 percent.
The poverty rate for women over age 65 is more than double that for men over age 65
-- 12.1 percent for women versus 5.5 percent for men.
In Denver, family households headed by a single parent are at the greatest risk of
being poor. Forty-three percent of all single parent families lived in poverty in 1989.
(The U.S. Census Bureau defines a family household as consisting of two or more
persons related by birth, marriage or adoption.)
In 1992, roughly one in four births in the Denver metro area was to an unmarried
woman, up from one in five births just a year earlier.
In general, women increased their work effort over the decade, and men decreased
theirs. Despite this trend, women participated in the labor force in 1989 at a lower
rate than men. (Labor force is defined as the percentage of adults working or looking
for work.)
In Denver, the percentage of Latina women in the labor force increased from 50.9
percent in 1979 to 60 percent in 1989.
In 1991, 38.4 percent of all births in Denver were to unwed mothers. This is a 12.4
percent increase from 1980.
In Denver, 31 percent of births are to mothers with less than a twelfth-grade education
level.
Only 31 percent of women who were never married to their child's father had court
ordered child support awards. I
Twenty percent of the single parent families in Colorado who were entitled to but not
receiving child support, were living in poverty.
2
In the Denver metro area, more than 33,000 children, or one out of every eight, did
not live with either parent in 1990, a 30 percent increase sine 1980.
[Unless otherwise noted, data were taken from the 1990 U.S. Census, as reported in a 1994
Piton Foundation Report, "Poverty in Denver."]
Endnotes 1-2: Data taken from Child Support in Colorado. The Results of a Household
Survey, Denver : The Center for Policy Research, 1991.
JUL 25 '95 08:14PM SBA ADMIN. OFFICE
SBA ASSISTANCE TO MI CASA
During its three years as a Women's Demonstration Site (1989 - 1991), Mi Casa received a total of
$216,505 from SBA, which it matched with non-federal funds. Once established as a provider of
women's business training, Mi Casa received an additional $70,000 under SBA's 7(j) program in
1994. (Though the Administration has requested $8.1 million for FY96, the House Appropriations
Committee did not fund the 7(j) program, and it is unlikely the Senate will support funding.)
SBA IN COLORADO
With help from places like Mi Casa, women entrepreneurs in Colorado are receiving more SBA
guaranteed loans than ever before (see charts). Denver is also a site for SBA's Women's
Prequalification Pilot Loan program. (This program uses non-profit organizations as intermediaries
to assist prospective women borrowers in developing a viable loan application package. The
application is considered under expedited processing by SBA. If approved, the intermediary assists
the applicant in locating a competitive lender.)
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U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
OFFICE OF WOMEN'S BUSINESS OWNERSHIP
Women owned businesses are one of the fastest growing segments of our economy
Women business-owners are starting businesses at twice the rate of their male counterparts; constituting one third
of all businesses and 15% of all receipts.
*
By the Year 2000, it is anticipated that women will own nearly half of all U.S. companies.
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Women owned firms are found in every industrial sector, from services to manufacturing.
*
From 1990 - 1992 according to the National Foundation of Women Business Owners survey:
57% increased sales
54% improved the quality of business processes
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46% developed a new product or service
33% expanded into new markets in the U.S. or abroad
32% increased capital expenditures
25% increased employment
*According to National Foundation for Women Business Owners and Dun & Bradstreeet Information Services (April
1995), estimates there are 7.7 million women owned business in the U.S. employing 15.5 million people and
generating nearly $1.4 trillion in sales.
Job Creation:
This growing segment of the economy has provided 15.5 million jobs, employing 35% more people in the U.S.
than Fortune 500 worldwide.
*
38% of all small businesses are owned by women, approximately 7.7 million women owned business in this
country.
*
Women owned businesses have staying power: over 40% have been in business for 12 years or more
*
70% of women business owners are financing their business with their credit cards and personal resources.
Women business owners are 3 times as likely as other businesses to use credit cards for short-term financing.
*
Employment growth in women owned firms exceeds the national average by a sustantial margin. 1991 . 1994
employement grew by 11.5% among commercially active women owned firms in the U.S. compared to 5.4% among
all firms. According to National Foundation for Women Business Owners and Dup & Bradstreet Information
Services (April 95), employment growth in women owned firms exceeds the national average in nearly every region
in the country and in nearly every major industry.
Big Market:
* 46% of women between the ages of 35 of 55 want to become business owners
* 64% of women between ages 18 - 34 want to become business owners.
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DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Office of Women's Business Ownership
Over 47,000 women have benefited from the Demonstration Program's training and
counseling. Many of the success stories born in these centers herald true economic
development--new jobs, increased earning potential and a larger pool of skilled entrepreneurs.
There are currently 54 sites in 28 states and the District of Columbia; all the centers offer
financial, management, marketing and technical assistance to current and potential women
business owners and each center tailors its style and offerings to the particular needs of its
community. Some sites target minorities such as Native American, African-American, Hispanic
and Asian-American populations.
From a Report to Congress completed on March 1992 by the National Academy of Public
Administration (a national federal program evaluator), "During the years of assessing the
effectiveness of projects throughout the United States, the Academy panel and project staff found
these organizations. to be dynamic groups whose services are making a difference for the
women who used them." They concluded that the projects could be strong components of local
economic development strategies.
The Women's Demonstration Program was established through the Women's Business
Ownership Act of 1988 and was reauthorized through the Women's Business Development Act
of 1991. Administered by the SBA's Office of Women's Business Ownership, it establishes
centers around the country to train and counsel women in the skills necessary to launch their
own businesses. In particular, the program targets socially and economically disadvantaged
women.
A number of the sites have developed a loan-pool based on the Grameen Bank model.
The loan pool allows participating members to borrow money based on group consensus
accompanied by long-term counseling and financial/management training.
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JULY 25, 1995
MEMORANDUM FOR THE FIRST LADY
FROM:
MISSY KINCAID
SUBJECT: VISIT TO MI CASA, SBA WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION SITE
Phil Lader, Cassandra Pulley and I are delighted you will be visiting Mi Casa, a graduate of the SBA's
Women's Demonstration Site program.
WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION SITES FUNDING FY95 - FY96
Current funding for the Women's Demonstration Sites is $4 million in FY95. This funds 54 sites in
28 states and the District of Columbia. SBA has requested $4 million for FY96 but the House
appropriations bill funds it at $2 million. The Senate has yet to act on our appropriations bill,
although historically Senator Bumpers and Senator Domenici have been strong supporters. We are
unsure about what Senator Gramm will introduce.
REGO II PROPOSAL AS IT AFFECTS WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION SITES
As part of our REGO II proposal, beginning in FY 97, we would combine three SBA small business
education and training programs (Women's Demonstration Sites, the Small Business Development
Centers [SBDC], and the Minority Management and Technical Assistance program known as the 7(j)
program.) Through this combined program, SBA could continue to serve and improve service aimed
at the unique needs of women business owners. By creating a unified program, SBA will reduce the
taxpayers' cost of the administration and operation of these three programs by 1/2 over a five year
period. The unified program will serve every state and will allow for more flexibility and greater
access to training for women entrepreneurs.
SBA ASSISTANCE TO WOMEN
SBA's largest lending program is the 7(a) business loan guarantee program. In FY94, through our
private sector lending partners, SBA guaranteed 7,218 loans to women for a total of $1.2 billion.
This compares to 3,376 SBA guaranteed loans for $580 million in FY92. In the first nine months
of FY 95, SBA guaranteed 10,335 loans to women for a total of $1.1 billion. Much of this increase
is due to the Low Documentation Loan Program (LowDoc).
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SBA ASSISTANCE TO MI CASA
During its three years as a Women's Demonstration Site (1989 - 1991), Mi Casa received a total of
$216,505 from SBA, which it matched with non-federal funds. Once established as a provider of
women's business training, Mi Casa received an additional $70,000 under SBA's 7(j) program in
1994. (Though the Administration has requested $8.1 million for FY96, the House Appropriations
Committee did not fund the 7(j) program, and it is unlikely the Senate will support funding.)
SBA IN COLORADO
With help from places like Mi Casa, women entrepreneurs in Colorado are receiving more SBA
guaranteed loans than ever before (see charts). Denver is also a site for SBA's Women's
Prequalification Pilot Loan program. (This program uses non-profit organizations as intermediaries
to assist prospective women borrowers in developing a viable loan application package. The
application is considered under expedited processing by SBA. If approved, the intermediary assists
the applicant in locating a competitive lender.)
LOANS TO WOMEN
COLORADO DISTRICT OFFICE
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DAILY POINTS
A BALANCED BUDGET BUILT ON
SHARED VALUES
RESIDENT THE OF OF STATE THE UNITED
July 24, 1995
A Tradition of Common Ground. For decades, Americans have shared certain common values: a belief in helping people
make the most of their lives and in moving our country forward. To make that possible, we shared commitments to:
Investing wisely in education and training;
Helping America's seniors live in health, not sickness;
Protecting the environment and public health;
Rewarding work over welfare and keeping our families strong;
Making sure American science and technology are the world's finest.
Those shared commitments go beyond partisan politics. They are our common ground.
Common Ground on Balancing the Budget. Now, President Clinton and the leadership of Congress share a commitment to
balancing the budget. This budget cutting builds on the President's 1993 plan that reduces the deficit by over $1 trillion dollars
over the next seven years. We have differences about timing -- the President thinks the budget should be brought to balance in 10
years, while the GOP would do it in 7-- but the important fact is that, for the first time in a generation, the President and Congress
are together committed to putting our fiscal house in order. We took a first step toward that goal by working together to cut more
than $16 billion out of this year's budget in the rescissions bill.
e President's Budget Plan Builds on Common Ground. The President's plan to balance the budget builds on
ommitments we have shared, protecting working families by:
Increasing investments in education and lifelong learning -- $41 billion over the next seven years - to help Americans
succeed in the new economy;
Strengthening Medicare for America's seniors and expanding health care coverage;
Preserving the budgets we need to enforce environmental and health safeguards;
Rewarding work over welfare by defending expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit President Clinton enacted in
1993;
Boosting innovation to make sure American businesses and workers can be competitive in the global marketplace.
Republicans Have Abandoned that Common Ground. They are pushing an extreme agenda that cuts education, health care
for seniors and undermines our shared commitments. For example, they have proposed:
Cutting education by $36 billion; eliminating AmeriCorps and Goals 2000; cutting 50,000 children from Head Start
in 1996 and 23 million students from Safe and Drug-Free Schools in 1996.
Requiring seniors to pay as much as $5600 more per couple in higher out-of-pocket costs by 2002 and leaving
millions of children without insurance.
Raising taxes on up to 14 million poor families by hundreds of dollars each, while targeting a huge tax cut largely at
the well-off.
THE WHITE HOUSE
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
(202) 456-5642
FAX (202) 456-1213
DRAWING THE LINE ON EDUCATION
Despite the bipartisan efforts last year to expand the quality and effectiveness of education,
the current budget debate points to a divide between the President and the Republican
Congress over education-the foundation of our democracy and free enterprise system. Both
the President and Republicans believe we must reduce the budget deficit and balance the
budget, and both propose deep cuts in discretionary spending to reach this goal. But the
President also believes that in order to create more opportunity, we must reduce the education
deficit by expanding investment in quality education. Most Republicans disagree. Thus,
while the President's balanced budget proposal launches an all-out effort to expand
educational opportunities, the GOP budgets drastically decrease educational opportunity.
THE EDUCATION GAP BETWEEN THE BUDGETS
The Republican budget resolution slashes education and training by $36 billion for 1995 to
2002 (including $10 billion in loan benefits to students). On July 24, the House
Appropriations Committee took the first step towards making this budget resolution a reality,
by cutting key education and training initiatives. By contrast, the President's budget increases
investment in these same areas by $40 billion over seven years. As a result, there is a major
education gap between the President's proposal and the Republicans'.
President Clinton will fight to expand investments in quality education, and he will fight
against efforts to reduce, gut, or eliminate key investments in education and job training.
Following is a brief outline of the fundamental differences between the President's approach
to education and the Republican approaches to education -- from pre-school through post-
secondary education.
I. EXPANDING HEAD START
President Clinton has made expanding and improving pre-schooling the starting point for
helping families give their children a good start on the right course. Republicans would slash
these investments.
HEAD START. President Clinton Adds 50,000 Children; Republicans Cut Up To
180,000 Children.
President Clinton already expanded investment in Head Start by $760 million
from 1993 to 1995. Now, he proposes to increase annual funding by $1.5
billion by 2002 to reach another 50,000 children. At the same time as he has
expanded Head Start, he has also reformed the way the program works to
improve teaching and facilities for all the children who participate.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee has approved reducing FY
1996 funding for Head Start to over $100 million below the FY 1995 level and
over $500 million below the President's request. Up to 45,000 children would
be cut off Head Start in 1996 if HHS is to maintain program quality. Freezing
funding at the reduced level would cut off up to 180,000 children in 2002
compared to 1995.
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II. IMPROVING ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
President Clinton has lent national support to local schools and communities working to
improve the quality of their education by rigorously teaching the basics, making schools safe
and drug-free, promoting increased parental involvement, raising student achievement and
discipline, getting technology into the classroom, and providing opportunities to go from
school to college or work. Republicans would eliminate national support for local educational
improvement, leaving students without crucial resources and assistance they need to succeed.
THE GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT: ASSISTING LOCAL
SCHOOLS. President Clinton Helped To Create This Initiative And Would Provide
$896 Million by 2002 To Upgrade 85,000 Schools for 44 Million Children;
Republicans Would Eliminate It.
President Clinton helped create Goals 2000, which supports state, community,
and school efforts to raise standards of achievement and discipline and
encourage students to work hard meet them. Forty-eight states are already
participating in this program. In his 1996 budget, the President calls for nearly
doubling the program, to almost $700 million, with the total level rising to
$896 million by 2002. That's enough to support improvements for all 44
million children in the over 85,000 public schools.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee has approved eliminating
Goals 2000 entirely-undermining what was once a bipartisan effort to spur
bottom-up school improvement in schools across the nation.
TITLE I: HELPING CHILDREN LEARN THE BASICS. President Clinton
Would Expand It Each Year; Republicans Would Freeze Funding, Depriving Over
One Million Children of Aid.
President Clinton supports Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies,
designed to provide needed resources to help students learn the basic subjects
in school. The program has been reoriented to give schools more flexibility to
support effective innovations that help all students read and write well and
meet challenging standards. The President has already increased Title I
funding by $573 million over two years, and he proposes an increase of $302
million this year, enough to serve 300,000 additional children, with further
increases every year in the future.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee approved a reducing
funding by $1.1 billion in 1996, cutting as many as 1.1 million children from
the program. These children from our poorest communities would be denied
the opportunity they need to reach their full potential.
SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS. President Clinton Has Consistently
Supported It; Republicans Would Gut It.
President Clinton supports this initiative to make our schools safe from drugs
and violence. The program funds everything from innovative anti-violence
education and after-school programs to metal detectors and security personnel.
The President would maintain funding at $500 million per year.
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Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee cut this program by 60
percent to $200 million, depriving over 23 million students of services in 1996
alone.
TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION: GETTING COMPUTERS IN THE
CLASSROOM. Republicans Would Gut This Clinton Initiative Which Leverages
Private Money for Technology in Public Schools.
President Clinton has helped initiate this challenge to the private sector to join
with schools and colleges to raise student achievement through the use of
computers and new learning technology in the classroom. A $50 million
federal investment in 1996 will leverage hundreds of millions of dollars in
private support.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee cut this program in half to
$25 million in FY 1996, denying school districts across the country the ability
to participate in this initiative, and drastically slowing the effort to leverage
millions more from the private sector.
SCHOOL-TO-WORK OPPORTUNITIES. President Clinton Has Supported A
New 50-State Movement; Republicans Would Stop It In Its Tracks.
President Clinton, with bipartisan support, signed into law the most important
national program ever to help states and localities set up systems to link
Federal, state, and local resources in new effective ways that ensure that all
young people-including the 70% of young Americans who don't get four-
year degrees--get the education they need to obtain good jobs with a future.
All states have received planning funds, and eight "leading edge" states are
using implementation grants to create systems that are getting positive reviews
from companies nationwide. Twenty more states will begin implementation
this year. President Clinton has proposed increasing support by 60% for FY
1996 to $400 million, bringing to 43 the number of states implementing school
to work systems. Remaining states would start up the following year.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee approved slashing the
President's request by over 50 percent to $190 million. This would seriously
hamper efforts of 28 states to complete the reforms they started in 1994 and
1995; twenty-two additional states would be denied the chance to implement
their reform plans to raise student skills.
SUMMER JOBS. President Clinton Supports Work Experiences for Youth;
Republicans Would Eliminate These Jobs.
President Clinton recognizes that the summer jobs program is an important
first opportunity to get work experience for many low-income youths,
especially those in inner cities where jobs are scarce. Without these
opportunities, these young people might not otherwise have any chance to learn
skills and workplace behavior during their formative years. The President has
proposed financing over 550,000 jobs in the summer of 1996 alone.
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Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee has approved eliminating
this program, with an $872 million cut from the President's request. In the
summer of 1996 alone this would eliminate this valuable work experience for
over 550,000 urban and rural at-risk youth.
III. INCREASING ACCESS TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
Assistance with financial aid to deserving college students is an investment in America's
future and helps families give their children a chance to make the most of their lives. Now
more than ever, post-secondary education and job training are the gateway to America's
middle class. Studies show that for every year of training a person gets after high school, his
or her earnings rise by 6 to 12 percent. After 15 years in which college costs increased far
faster than inflation but family incomes stagnated, President Clinton has initiated historic
efforts to expand college access. Republican proposals would devastate access to post-
secondary grants and loans, and to job training, setting back college access by years if not
decades.
AMERICORPS: HELPING STUDENTS WHO HELP THEIR COMMUNITIES.
President Clinton Offers Opportunities to Nearly 50,000 Young People in
AmeriCorps Next Year Alone plus over 1 Million Other Service Opportunities Each
Year for People of All Ages; Republicans Would Eliminate All of AmeriCorps and
More Than 750,000 of the Service Opportunities for People of All Ages.
President Clinton created AmeriCorps to enable young people to earn money
for education by serving their communities--teaching, caring for the sick,
making the streets safer. Already 20,000 Americans are serving in
AmeriCorps, and nearly 50,000 are expected next year. He also fully supports
an additional 1 million service opportunities in Learn and Serve, VISTA, Foster
Grandparents, and other programs.
Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee approved eliminating
AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National Service and cut opportunities in
other service programs. Over 4.3 million service opportunities for youth in
their communities would be abolished over the next seven years. In FY 1996
alone nearly 50, 000 young Americans from hard-working, middle class
families will lose the opportunity to serve their communities through
AmeriCorps in locally-identified areas of crucial need such as health care,
social service, and crime prevention, and to earn an educational award to help
pay for college or other training.
PELL GRANTS: PROVIDING THE LIFELINE TO COLLEGE FOR
WORKING FAMILIES. President Clinton Raised the Maximum Grant to a
Record High and Would Increase Annual Funding by $3.4 Billion by 2002;
Republicans Would Eliminate Up To 300,000 Students From The Program.
President Clinton has supported the Pell Grant program, and increased the
maximum Pell Grant in his 1996 budget by 12%, to its highest level ever,
$2,620. In his new budget, he would increase annual funding by $3.4 billion
by 2002--enough to reach 960,000 more recipients and increase the maximum
award to $3,128.
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Republicans: The House Appropriations Committee approved an increase in
the maximum Pell Grant by only $100, to $2440. Furthermore, the committee
approved eliminating about 300,000 students from the program who would
receive awards between $400 and $600 under the President's proposal. For
millions of students, grants make the difference between going to college and
not going, between staying in school and dropping out. For example, $250
equals approximately 25% of tuition and fees of community colleges.
IN-SCHOOL INTEREST EXEMPTION: HELPING STUDENTS AND
FAMILIES PAY FOR COLLEGE. Republicans Would Raise College Costs for Up
to 4 Million Students.
President Clinton supports the in-school interest exemption, under which four
million need-tested students with Stafford loans do not have to pay interest
while enrolled in school and during the grace period (six months) between
leaving school and entering repayment.
Republicans in their budget resolution propose $10 billion in cuts in student
loans. In order to achieve that level of savings and preserve unnecessary
payments to banks, secondary markets, and guaranty agencies, they will not
only have to eliminate any subsidy for graduate or professional students, but
also hit college students with higher fees-for example, eliminating the six
month grace period for interest after college or raising the origination fees that
every student must pay to get their loans.
DIRECT LENDING AND INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION ACCOUNTS: MAKING
COLLEGE MORE AFFORDABLE. President Clinton Supports Expanding These
Initiatives; Republicans Want To Raise the Cost to Students and Reduce Access.
President Clinton supports expanding the new direct lending program and
individual education accounts. Direct lending eliminates billions of dollars in
unnecessary payments to lenders and others and makes student loans cheaper
and more efficient for students, schools, and taxpayers. With the passage of
the Student Loan Reform Act, 104 schools and over 252,000 students initiated
the program in 1995. On July 1, 1995, more than 1,400 schools-representing
about 40% of all loans and the maximum allowed under this year's
authorization-began the second year on schedule. The President would
expand the program to all schools and students. This program is already
saving $6.8 billion for taxpayers, lowering interest rates for students, and
allowing borrowers to choose flexible repayment arrangements, including pay-
as-you-eam plans through Individual Education Accounts. In time, 20 million
current borrowers and six million new borrowers per year will benefit.
Republicans have proposed legislation to reduce funds available for direct
lending, prevent more schools from choosing to participate in the initiative, and
cap participation at 40 percent of all loans. The committee mark also approved
a reduction in direct loan administration funds by over 40 percent in order to
cripple implementation and to deny the benefits of direct lending to low and
middle income students. These actions will stop the growth of cost-effective,
efficient direct lending in order to keep unnecessary payments flowing to
wealthy banks and unnecessary middlemen.
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DAILY POINTS
COMMON GROUND, ON HEALTH CARE
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Americans Have Long Believed We Must Protect Health Care for Seniors. In 1965, with strong bipartisan support, Congress
expressed that consensus by creating Medicare and Medicaid. Because of that step forward, 97 percent of senior citizens now enjoy
health care coverage and the freedom and security that come with it.
Bipartisan Support for Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. When the Social Security Act amendments establishing
Medicare and Medicaid were approved by Congress in 1965, nearly half of all Republican members supported the
program: 65 of 138 GOP Members of the House and 13 of 27 Republican Senators. Said Rep. Paul Fino (R-NY), "This
bill-the Social Security Act of 1965-is more than a milestone: it is a landmark in the field of welfare and enlightened
social security legislation. The Social Security Act of 1965 will give our citizens over 65 some measure of the economic
security they deserve." (April 7, 1965)
That Common Ground Has Held for 30 Years. From time to time, some have sought drastic cuts in Medicare, but the
common ground has now held for three decades in America. That ground is clear. Seniors should contribute their fair share,
but:
Seniors' benefits should be maintained and improved, not cut;
Seniors' out-of-pocket costs should be tightly controlled, not dramatically increased; and
Medicare as a whole should not be used to finance tax cuts or other luxuries.
President Clinton has Held Firm on America's Common Ground. His health care proposals will strengthen Medicare and
aintain security for seniors by:
Extending the solvency of the Medicare Trust Fund at least through 2005;
Making no new cuts targeted at beneficiaries; and
Expanding benefits for seniors, including free mammograms and respite care for families of people with
Alzheimer's disease.
Republicans Have Abandoned the Common Ground - --With Unprecedented, Unnecessary Increases in Out-of-Pocket
Costs for Seniors. Their proposal would:
Increase premiums, copayments and deductibles for seniors--with the rise in out-of-pocket costs totalling
$5,650 per couple by 2002.
Not provide real choice, but instead force seniors to pay more, get less, or both. They would have to pay
more to see their own doctor, or enter a managed care plan that could provide fewer benefits and still have
rising costs.
Republicans have abandoned common ground by using Medicare beneficiaries as a bank to pay for tax cuts. They would not
t cut. any of their new out-of-pocket costs if they would drop their tax cut for the well-off and accept the President's middle-class
THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS (202) 456-5642 FAX (202) 456-1213
MEDICARE
REPUBLICANS' UNPRECEDENTED CUTS: The Republican Budget Resolution Conference
Agreement would cut $270 billion from the Medicare program over the next seven years -- $71
billion in the year 2002 alone. This approximately triples anything previously enacted.
CUTS ARE REAL: Republicans will call their proposal an increase, not a cut, since
spending will be higher in 2002 than it is today. But by that logic, reducing the Social
Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) would not be considered a cut. In fact, the
Repubicans' out-of-pocket increases would have the effect of taking half of the Social
Security (COLA) from the pockets of the average Medicare beneficiary.
BILLIONS ADDED TO OLDER AMERICANS' ALREADY HIGH COSTS: The
Republican Budget would increase beneficiaries' out-of-pocket costs by tens of billions of
dollars. Assuming their cuts were equally divided between beneficiaries and providers:
Over the seven-year period, beneficiaries would be forced to pay an additional
$2,825 ($5,650 per couple) out-of-pocket relative to the President's proposal.
VOUCHERS AREN'T CHOICE, THEY'RE FINANCIAL COERCION: Republican
proposals that promise choice through Medicare "vouchers" actually threaten to undermine
fundamental Medicare protections.
Medicare guarantees beneficiaries that it will pay the cost of covered services, subject
to fixed and predictable cost-sharing requirements. That's a benefit guarantee.
A voucher would replace this benefit guarantee with a fixed dollar amount. This
means that beneficiaries would be on their own to find a health plan, with a voucher
that is losing value over time.
Republicans claim you can keep the Medicare coverage you've got. How can you keep
what you can't afford? The only way for Republicans to achieve the level of savings they
are proposing is through requirements that beneficiaries have to pay much more to stay in
the current Medicare program. That's not choice, that is financial coercion.
NO NEW BENEFICIARY CUTS IN THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL: While the
Republicans would cut beneficiary protection to finance tax cuts for the well off, the
President would strengthen Medicare financing without new burdens for beneficiaries. The
President's proposal would:
Reduce Medicare spending by $124 billion -- less than half the Republican cuts;
Ensure Medicare trust fund solvency through at least 2005, without any new
beneficiary cuts;
Accompany reductions in Medicare spending with: 1) new prevention and long-term
care benefits; 2) more plan choices for beneficiaries; 3) aggressive pursuit of fraud and
abuse; 4) insurance reform; and, 5) important new insurance affordability protections
for small businesses and working families.
REPUBLICAN VOUCHER PROPOSALS OFFER FALSE CHOICES
Republicans Offer the Ultimate False Choice: You Can Choose to Pay More OR
You Can Choose to Get Less. Under the Republican "voucher" plan, beneficiaries
who wish to keep their fee-for-service plan and a guarantee of their choice of doctor
will have to pay significantly more. Even those beneficiaries who go into managed
care will have their current benefits threatened. This is because the Republicans'
overly tight growth rates will, over time, diminish the value of the voucher and the
type of coverage it can purchase.
The Republican Medicare working document provides a preview of what is in
store for beneficiaries who want to keep their fee-for-service plans. Specifically,
preliminary estimates indicate that:
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The average Medicare recipient of skilled nursing home services will pay
at least $1,400 more.
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The average beneficiary receiving home health care services will pay at
least $1,700 more in 2002.
Every beneficiary choosing to stay in the fee-for-service plan would pay at
least $2,825 more in premiums and copayments over 7 years; couples
would pay at least $5,650. Couples would pay at least $1,250 more in 2002
alone.
Republicans Slash Medicare Growth Rate Levels Far Below Private Sector. The
Republicans claim they want to emulate the health care cost containment successes of
the private sector. Permitting Medicare to grow at a 7.1 percent pace -- CBO's
projection of the per person growth rate in the private sector -- would save significant
Federal dollars. However, the Republican $270 billion in cuts would constrain
Medicare to a much tighter and unrealistic 4.9 percent per beneficiary growth rate.
That is not emulation; that is decimation.
Capped Vouchers Mean Cruel Medicare Birthday Present. At best, on the eve of
the 30th anniversary of Medicare's enactment, Republicans would force beneficiaries
to pay much more to keep what they have today. Since 75% of these beneficiaries
have incomes below $25,000, it's hard to imagine how they could afford to do so. At
worst, beneficiaries would be forced to buy coverage that doesn't meet their needs.
That's not choice; that's financial coercion.
The President's Plan Offers Real Choice and Has No New Cost Increases.
The President's approach shows that you can strengthen the Medicare Trust Fund, off
more choice of plans, and provide new benefits without imposing new Medicare
beneficiary cuts. In contrast, Republican House Majority Leader Armey says th
Medicare is "a program I would have no part of in a free world."
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Revised July 25, 1995
Increased Medicare Beneficiary
Out-of-Pocket Costs, 1996 - 2002
$150
$114 Billion
Dollars in Billions
$100
$50
$0
$0
President's Proposal
Budget Resolution
Conference Agreement
The new Medicare proposals included in the President's June 14. 1995 budget announcement do not include any new beneficiary costs. Republican proposal adjusted to
reflect the Part B premium extender in the President's FY 1996 budget. This chart assumes 50% of Republican cuts affect beneficiaries. US DHHS Estimates
Increased Medicare Out-of-Pocket
Costs Per Beneficiary, 2002
$1,500
$1,250
Dollars per Beneficiary
$1,000
$625
$500
$0
$0
President's Proposal
Single
Couple
Budget Resolution Conference Agreement
The new Medicare proposals included in the President's June 14, 1995 budget announcement do not include any new beneficiary costs. Republican proposal adjusted to
reflect the Part B premium extender in the President's FY 1996 budget. This chart assumés 50% of Republican cuts affect beneficiaries. US DHHS Estimates
Increased Medicare Out-of-Pocket
Costs Per Beneficiary, 1996 MM 2002
$6,000
$5,650
$5,000
Dollars per Beneficiary
$4,000
$2,825
$3,000
$2,000
$1,000
$0
$0
President's Proposal
Single
Couple
Budget Resolution Conference Agreement
The new Medicare proposals included in the President's June 14, 1995 budget announcement do not include any new beneficiary costs. Republican proposal adjusted to
reflect the Part B premium extender in the President's FY 1996 budget. This chart assumes 50% of Republican cuts affect beneficiaries. US DHHS Estimates
7/24/95
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
30TH ANNIVERSARY OF MEDICARE
THE U.S. CAPITOL
JULY 25, 1995
[Acknowledgements; Vice President Gore for introduction; Eugene
Glover, President, National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC)
Larry Smedley, retiring Executive Director, NCSC; Senator
Kennedy; Senator Daschle; Congressman Dingell; Congressman
Gephardt; Dr. Arthur Fleming and family; Genevieve "Mother"
Johnson and family, 96-year-old seniors' advocate and president
of NCSC's D.C. State Council of Senior Citizens]
Standing here in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, we also stand in
the light of all of you and so many others who worked so hard to
create the great social contract we call Medicare.
We stand in the light of Franklin Roosevelt, who understood more
than 60 years ago society's moral obligations to its elders.
We stand in the light of Harry Truman, who said more than 50
years ago that the time had come for America to help its senior
citizens achieve and enjoy good health.
We stand in the light of John F. Kennedy who would not live to
see his dream of health security for older Americans realized.
We'stand in the light of Lyndon Johnson, who on July 30, 1965
honored millions of older Americans who had looked with such hope
to that day. He said, "There are those, alone in suffering, who
will now hear the sound of some approaching footsteps coming to
help. There are those fearing the terrible darkness of
despairing poverty -- despite their long years of labor and
expectation -- who will now look up to see the light of hope and
realization."
Thirty years ago the American people reached common ground on the
need to provide guaranteed health security to older Americans.
One generation came together and demanded the passage of Medicare
so that another generation would be protected and they themselves
could look forward to that same protection. It took vision and
courage. It took the joint efforts of Democrats and Republicans.
It took the common sense to apply those same values that we use
in our families to our larger national family: We must take care
of those who have taken care of us.
It is important to remember what our nation looked like before
Medicare. Fifty percent of the elderly had no health insurance.
Older Americans who had fought our wars and built this country
from the ground up were forced to choose between food and shelter
and medical care. Men and women who had given a life-time to
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raising families and serving their communities were one illness
away from total destitution. As the Vice President's father,
Senator Al Gore, Sr. said in 1965, this was "a disgrace in a
country such as ours."
The American people deserved better, and many of you in this room
were directly responsible for what has become, along with Social
Security, the most important legislation on behalf of American
seniors in the history of this great country.
And Medicare has worked. It has relieved older Americans of the
terrible anxiety they suffered when they had no way to pay for
care. It has given new meaning to a value as old as America: the
belief that all Americans should have the chance to make the most
of their own lives -- for as long as they live.
And let's not forget that America gave birth to twins in July of
1965. The same legislation that created Medicare also created
Medicaid, which provides desperately needed health care for
children, their mothers, older and disabled Americans. Fully two-
thirds of the Medicaid budget goes to care for older Americans
and disabled citizens. Without Medicaid, middle class families
struggling to raise and educate their children, would face
nursing home bills for their parents that average $38,000 a year.
So too we need to celebrate and recommit ourselves to Medicaid today
As I have said, we are at a historic moment. For the first time
in a long time, leaders of both parties agree that we must
balance the budget. And we agree we must take steps to insure
that the Medicare Trust Fund remains strong. My balanced budget
does both.
But, beyond that, the Congressional majority is calling our
common ground into question. Some in Congress would choose for
the first time ever to use the benefits we provide under Medicare
as a piggy-bank to fund their huge tax cuts. That is wrong.
My balanced budget plan provides for no new Medicare cost
increases for older Americans. But, the majority in Congress
passed a very different plan. They would cut $270 billion
dollars from Medicare and raise Medicare premiums and out-of-
pocket costs for a couple by $1250 a year and $5600 over 7 years.
And why must their budget come down so hard on Medicare
beneficiaries while mine can afford to protect them? The
difference is simple. They want to use Medicare cuts to pay for
a huge $245 billion tax cut. I have proposed a $105 billion tax
cut that benefits middle class Americans who need it most. If
they targeted their tax cut, as I have, we would not need one
penny of the Medicare beneficiary cuts they propose.
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The cuts proposed by the Congressional majority mean that for the
first time in 30 years, we are at risk of retreating from our
common ground. Millions of older Americans face the real risk of
not being able to afford the medical care most have today.
The Congressional majority's plan would provide older Americans
with vouchers for a set amount each year. The voucher would
supposedly cover enough to buy medical insurance. But each year,
private health care costs would increase more than 40 percent
more than the value of a voucher.
If you are over 65 and in the best of health, this might work for
you. But what if you get sicker as you get older? If the vouchers
are inadequate, the elderly must make up the difference out of
their own pockets. There is no clear provision to give a larger
voucher for a patient with cancer than for one who is healthy.
There is no clear provision to stop companies from turning people
down based on their medical condition. There is no clear
provision sick. to stop companies from cutting people off when they get
In the past, various experts have suggested that the Medicare
budget cuts will inflict harm and financial suffering on the
elderly. But as the grisly details of this plan become known, it
is becoming clearer and clearer that it will also actually deny
medical care to elderly who need it. In all but dire emergencies,
it is all too easy to see how millions of older Americans will
actually be denied the medical attention they need.
Here are some examples of how that might happen. A 75 year-old
woman has exhausted her savings and is too sick to work. Her
voucher isn't enough to permit her to afford any health insurance
plan. She would have to reach into her own pocket, but her pocket
is empty. She can't get into a hospital unless it's a dire
emergency because she can't pay the $750 deductible. And she
can't go to a doctor's office, because she can't pay the extra
premium. Now that woman is stuck. And she can't get care.
Or take the man who is 75 years-old now. He gets a voucher that
just about covers the cost of his health insurance. In three
years, his voucher goes up by only five percent a year. But his
premium goes up by ten percent a year. After three years, the gap
is so wide that he can't afford to pay. He dropped his Medigap
coverage because he was persuaded the voucher system would work.
Now that man is stuck. And he can't get care.
A 70 year old man has just had open heart surgery. He has
recovered enough to go home and be treated by a visiting nurse.
But under the plan of the Congressional majority, he must pay
$1400 in copayments to get the visiting nurse. He can't afford
that, so he stays in the hospital for months, at three or four
times the costs. Now that man is stuck. And he can't afford to go
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home.
Those who want to keep what they have now will have to pay
significantly more. Every person on Medicare will pay $1650 more
over 7 years in premiums to cover their doctor bills. The
average person who receives care in their own homes will pay at
least $1700 more in the year 2002 alone. Remember, these are
people who already pay 21 percent of their income on health care.
Can the elderly afford $1650 more for premiums to cover doctor
bills?
alone? Can they afford $1700 more for home health care in one year
Will vouchers cover them against sudden premium increases if they
get sicker?
Will medical care costs stay sufficiently under control to permit
the vouchers to cover the full costs of care?
Is it fair to make older Americans give up their doctors and be
forced into managed care?
I believe the answer to all these questions for millions of our
elderly is: No. Those who want to gamble with Medicare are asking
older Americans to bet their lives. And why must they bet their
lives? Not to balance the budget. We can do that anyway. But
the Congressional majority cuts $146 billion more than I want
from Medicare to pay out $140 billion more than I want in tax
cuts. America must decide if it's worth it. I say no.
We can balance the budget, while protecting older Americans from
any Medicare cost increases. The way to do it is to require
insurance plans to cover those with pre-existing conditions. To
make a commitment to preventive and long-term care. To encourage
home care as an alternative to nursing homes. To let workers
take insurance coverage with them when they change jobs. To
crack down on fraud and abuse.
And most of all, we need to achieve these reductions over a
decade -- not try to compress them into seven years as the
majority in Congress proposes.
So, let us come back to the common ground we have all held for
thirty years. Let the Congress join me in four basic principles:
1.
We must be sure that good, affordable health care is
available to older Americans.
2.
We must not cut Medicare just to have a bigger tax cut.
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3
We must reduce medical cost inflation over a decade through
real reforms -- not by destroying Medicare.
4.
We must not attempt to balance the budget by cutting medical
care for older Americans.
Medicare originally was not just common ground between Democrats
and Republicans. More important, it was common ground between
generations of Americans. Younger Americans could use their
resources to send their children to college, because if their
parents became sick, Medicare was there. And it has been there
now for an entire generation of American families. But if the
Congressional majority has its way about Medicare, the average
American family will have to choose between opportunities for
their children and compassion for their parents.
That is not the way to strengthen our families. More than
anything else, the achievement we celebrate today is really about
the sacred bonds between generations. We expect and hope that
people who have gained and given so much from and to America will
keep their commitments to the generations that come after. That
means support for health care, safe communities and the education
and training opportunities we know all our young people need to
compete in the global economy. That is the obligation that one
generation has to the generations that come after.
But that obligation goes in both directions. Just as we must pass
down the chance for stronger lives to those coming after, so too
we must keep faith with those who have come before. Medicare, as
much as anything we have done in the last half century, is about
keeping that faith -- and I am committed to keeping it strong for
the future. With your help, that is exactly what we will do.
Thank you and God bless you.
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House Appropriations Committee Slashes Violence Against Women Funding
FACT:
The 1994 Crime Bill, as passed, authorizes $170 million for 1996 for the
Justice Department's portion of the Violence Against Women Act grants.
FACT:
On July 19th, the House Appropriations Committee reneged on the
commitment to assist local anti-violence programs by slashing nearly $100
million of funding for the Justice Department's Violence Against Women Act
program grants from the FY96 Commerce, Justice, State Appropriations Bill.
BACKGROUND:
Less than one year ago, the House of Representatives made a bipartisan commitment
to the nation to address the crisis of violence against women when it passed the Violence
Against Women Act by a vote of 411-0. It was signed into law by President Clinton in
September, 1994, as part of the 1994 Crime Control Act. The Act combines tough law
enforcement provisions with new federal funding for states and localities to assist in
prosecuting offenders and protecting women who have been, or are, at risk of being abused
or sexually assaulted. The Act also contains critical prevention initiatives aimed at stopping
violence against women before it occurs.
This year, over 55 states and territories have already received the first installment of
Department of Justice STOP Violence Against Women grants. For many grantees, the
federal government is the major, if not the only source of support. The STOP grant funds
provided to states must be divided 25% to law enforcement, 25% to prosecution, and 25%
to non-profit victim services. The remaining 25% may be allocated by the designated State
agency within the parameters of the Act. We must not turn back on our progress.
EFFECTS OF CUTS TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PROGRAMS:
Cuts to Violence Against Women Program funds threaten the full enforcement of the
Violence Against Women Act.
The House Committee's cuts means fewer shelters, police, and prosecutors.
The cuts reduce the ability of police to utilize advanced technology in fighting
domestic violence.
The cuts undermine the efforts state and local law enforcement agencies, along with
victims services providers, have made based on the expectation that the Federal
government would live up to its commitments under the Violence Against Women
Act.
Violence Against Women grants are concentrated at the local level. These cuts will
be felt in local shelters, police stations, and courthouses, where they are desperately
needed.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) opposes the severe funding cuts and
the program eliminations approved by the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education. The following programs are of particular concern to AAUW
members.
Program
FY 1995
Chairman's Mark*
Cut in Funding*
Comparable*
Goals 2000
$371,870
0
- $371,870
Training and Advisory Services
$21,412
0
- $21,412
(Civil Rights IV-A)
!
M
Women's Educational Equity
$3,967
0
- $3,967
Title I of ESEA
$7,217,824
$6,014,499
- $1,203,325
Vocational Education (Basic
$972,750
$700,000
- $272,750
State Grants)
Safe and Drug Free Schools
$440,981
$200,000
- $240,981
Professional Development
$589,548
$500,000
- $98,548
School-to-Work
$122,500
$95,000
- $27,500
Office for Civil Rights
$22,011
$13,500
- $8,511
* in thousands
Contacts: Nancy Zirkin, Director of Government Relations, 202/785-7720
Cindy Brown, Legislative Associate, 202/785-7730
AAUW
7/20/95
FUNDING FOR TITLE X
Without Title X funding, women's access to critical preventive health
services would be jeopardized. Title X provides the foundation for family
planning services in many communities across the U.S - about one third of the
budget for clinics providing subsidized family planning services. Without these
funds, the family planning service delivery infrastructure in the United States
would be in danger of collapsing.
Current program levels are already inadequate to meet the needs of women
and adolescents. The Title x program serves less than half of those currently
eligible for services, in part because of funding constraints. In real dollars, funding
for the program declined by over 70 percent between 1980 and 1992. Over this
same period, health care costs have soared, including the cost of contraceptive
supplies, and the number of women of reproductive age who are in the economic
group needing services has increased. The decline in funding has forced family
planning clinics to cut back or eliminate efforts to recruit patients, especially those
who are hardest to reach, cut back hours of operation, and accept fewer patients
who need subsidized services.
The need for continued funding for family planning services is essential to
avoid any further erosion in the availability and range of family planning
services, Including outreach and education. The need for federal funding is
evident when key reproductive health indicators are examined:
- More than half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended
- The teenage pregnancy rate in the United Sates is high - over 12 percent of
teens become pregnant each year, resulting in over 1 million births
- Over three-quarters of births to teens are unintended, and
- Sexually transmitted diseases are increasing in prevalence, particularly among
young and low-income persons.
The Title X funding for FY 1995 is $193.4 million. In 1992, the Congressional
Budget Office calculated that if the program had simply received cost-of-living
Increases since 1981 years the program would have been funded at $290 million.
The Clinton Administration's FY 1996 budget is $199 million, an increase of $5.6
million, or three percent, over FY 1995. While the requested Increase in funding
is positive, the level of funding required to reach the 1980 level in inflation-
adjusted dollars would be over $300 million. We urge your support for this critical
program at the highest possible funding level.
CUTS TO PROGRAMS IMPACTING WOMEN
Appropriations Bills
President's Budget
Republican Cuts
Labor, Health and Human
Education for Disadvantaged Students:
Reduces funding by $1.1 billion. A freeze at
Services, Education
Boosts funding by $302 million, to $7 billion,
this level would, by 2002, cut 600,000 children
Appropriations Bill
to help states raise academic achievement of 6.4
from the program.
million disadvantaged children.
Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
Reduces funding to $200 million, a 60% cut
Communities: Provides funding at $500
from the President's request, depriving over 23
million per year, for a safer, more drug-free
million students of services next year.
learning environments for 39 million children in
over 14,000 school districts.
Head Start: Increases 1996 funding by $400
Cuts funding by $135 million from 1995 level,
million and adds 32,000 new Head Start slots
shutting out 45,000-50,000 children from Head
for children in 1996--and 50,000 new slots by
Start in 1996.
2002.
Goals 2000: Provides $750 million in 1996 to
Eliminates all funding for education reform.
raise academic standards in 16,000 schools in
48 states.
School-to-Work: Boosts funds to $400
Cuts funds to $190 million, impairing efforts of
million, 60% increase over 1995, to support
28 states to complete reforms begun in 1994
states building school-to-work systems with 1-
and 1995, and denying 22 states the chance to
year planning and 5-year implementation grants.
implement their reform plans to raise student
skills and build a more competitive workplace.
Low Income Home Energy Assistance
Eliminates LIHEAP emergency fund.
Program (LIHEAP): Provides $1.319 billion
in 1996, matching 1995 level.
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Grants:
Cuts 75%, or $144 million, compared to the
Roughly maintains 1995 level of $566 million.
President's plan, jeopardizing substance abuse
and mental health services for tens of
thousands of pregnant women and high-risks
youth.
Administration on Aging: Boosts funds by
Ends 7 of 12 elderly programs and cuts funds
$21 million, to $897 million. Maintains 1995
for all others, but 1. Organizations like Meals
level for nutrition programs that include Meals
on Wheels would be reimbursed for 5 million
on Wheels.
fewer meals delivered to older Americans.
Violence Against Women Act: Increases
Cuts $21.9 million, eliminating programs to
funding from $1 million to $61.9 million
reduce sexual abuse of youth and providing
less funding for battered women's shelters.
Women's Health Office.
Cuts $400,000 or 15% of funding of the
women's health office.
Title X.
Abolishes the Title X family planning program
and rolls $200 million into a block grant to the
states. These funds do not have to be used for
family planning services.
Gag Rule.
Reinstates the "gag rule."
Fetal Tissue Research.
Reinstates the funding ban on fetal tissue
research.
Medicaid Funding.
Allows states the option to deny Medicaid
funding for victims of rape and incest
abortions.
Wage & Hour Administration.
Cuts 12% of the Wage & Hour enforcement
office which severely threatens the office's
ability to handle any enforcement of the
Family & Medical Leave Act.
Reduces the number of low-wage women (e.g.,
in garment sweatshops) whose minimum wage
and hour rights are protected (women account
for the majority of minimum wage earners).
Office of Federal Contract Compliance.
Cuts 12% of the Labor Department's
affirmative action laws for federal contractors -
- affects women disproportionately.
Women's Bureau.
Cuts 7.5% of the Labor Department's Women's
Bureau which affects Working Women Count
and other public education & outreach projects.
Commerce, Justice, & State, the
Violence Against Women Act: Increases
Cuts funding by $100 million to $75 million.
Judiciary Appropriations Bill
funding from $25 million to $175 million.
These cuts threaten the full enforcement of the
VAWA, where they are concentrated at the
local level. These cuts will be felt in local
shelter, police stations, and courthouses, where
they are desperately needed.
Small Business Administration's Office of
Cuts 50% of the funding to $2 million for the
Women's Business Ownership: Provides $4
Women's Demonstration Site Program.
million for the Women's Demonstration Site
Program.
Agriculture, Rural
Food Stamp Program.
Removes the "benefit reserve cushion" of the
Development, Food & Drug
Food Stamp Program, a $2.5 billion
Administration Appropriations
contingency fund which finances additional
Bill
benefits during downturns.
Women, Infants, and Children Program
Erodes the positive impacts of the WIC
(WIC).
program by imposing a participation cap on
WIC at the current 7.3 million participants,
even if states find ways to provide benefits
more efficiently; and cut administrative funding
by $70 million below the Administration's
estimate of what's needed to provide health and
nutrition services.
School Meals Initiative.
Provides $5 million for the School Meals
Initiative, $21 million below the President's
request
Residency Training Programs for Abortion
Eliminates residency training programs in ob-
Procedures.
gyn teaching abortion procedure.
RU-486.
Blocks RU-486 approval by the FDA.
VA, HUD & Independent
Public Housing: Provides $8.1 billion in 1996
Cuts 1996 funding by 37%, or $3 billion.
Agencies Appropriations Bill
for public housing capital and operating funds,
These cuts will force public housing authorities
enough to reduce a backlog of capital needs,
to under-maintain and abandon projects or cut
tear down or reconfigure the worst projects, and
security and services.
prepare for a proposed transition to portable
assistance, giving choices to public housing
Repeals the requirement that rents be set at
residents.
30% of a household's income. Many PHAs
would raise rents on poorest families, forcing
some into homelessness and others to use most
of their cast income for rent.
Treasury, Postal Service &
Federal Employees' Health Benefits
Preclude's Federal employees and their families
General Government
Program.
from purchasing health insurance coverage that
Authorizations Bill
covers abortions.
Defense Reauthorization Bill
Abortion Services.
Bans privately funded abortion services at U.S.
military hospitals and other federal facilities to
women stationed overseas.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 25, 1995
MEMORANDUM FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
FROM:
Doug Sosnik
SUBJECT: Colorado Politics
POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
The Rocky Mountains split Colorado into two distinct political regions: the Front Range and the
Western Slope. The Democratic enclaves of the Front Range (Denver, Boulder and Pueblo)
differentiate Colorado from other staunchly Republican western states. While only 20% of the
state's population reside in the mountainous area called the Western Slope, this vast expanse of
land represents the core opposition to the administration's western land use reform proposals.
Democratic support in the Southern part of the state has declined in recent years. This trend
was exacerbated by a recent controversy over the withdrawal of a Hispanic judge from Pueblo
for consideration as a federal district judge.
1995 DENVER MAYORAL RACE
Mayor Wellington Webb (D) fought off a serious challenge from City Councilwoman Mary
DeGroot (D) to win the mayoralty runoff by a 54%-46% margin. Propelled by an effective
GOTV operation, Webb's base vote in the Hispanic and African American communities turned
out in much larger numbers than they did in the primary. DeGroot's campaign stalled after
finishing first in the initial balloting. Since all contenders in the race were Democrats, the
Administration was officially neutral in the contest, and Webb was disappointed that the
Administration did not help him. Still, the President called Webb on election night to
congratulate Webb and they had a very good conversation. Webb is anxious to be helpful on
the Re-Elect. Governor Romer endorsed Webb early in the campaign, but did little to help him
until the very end.
1996 SENATE RACE
Senator Hank Brown (R) has announced that he will not seek a second term. The opening up
of this seat improves the Democrats' chances, but many are rightly concerned that we may not
have the first-tier candidate necessary to win the contest. First-term state Senator Paul
Weissmann (D) is the only announced Democrat at the moment, but Denver attorney Tom
Strickland (D) is expected to announce his candidacy in the fall. Although Strickland has low
name identification and has never run for public office, he has a record of public service, strong
ties to Governor Romer and other state Democrats, a good reputation in the environmental
community and a strong fundraising base thanks to his politically well-connected law firm. With
the decisions of Rep. David Skaggs (D) and businesswoman/philanthropist Merle Chambers (D)
to stay out of the race, Strickland is considered the likeliest nominee, at least at this point.
Other Democrats considering the race include Denver City Councilwoman Ramona Martinez,
real estate developer Philip Herrington, who ran Jerry Brown's 1992 campaign in the state and
University of Colorado Law School Dean Gene Nichol. Many Democrats in the state are
hopeful that Governor Romer, their strongest candidate, will ultimately decide to enter the race,
but he has denied this and his son is helping Strickland's campaign. Rumors persist that former
Senator Gary Hart (D) will run but this is considered highly unlikely.
The Republican field is led by Attorney General Gale Norton (R), the top statewide votegetter
in 1994. Norton will argue the appeal on behalf of the state's anti-gay initiative in front of the
U.S. Supreme Court this fall. The case will provide her with a high profile forum on an issue
that arouses Republican primary voters. Rep. Wayne Allard (R) is lining up as her chief rival
and will run against her from the right. The primary contest between these two is expected to
be very close and could be divisive.
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION / 1996 HOUSE RACES
Senator Hank Brown (R)
Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R)
Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D)
Rep. David Skaggs (D)
Rep. Scott McInnis (R)
Rep. Wayne Allard (R)
Rep. Joel Hefley (R)
Rep. Dan Schaefer
Senator Brown, who will retire next year after one term, sits on the Budget, Foreign Relations,
Judiciary and Veterans Affairs Committees. Colorado Democrats suffered an embarrassing loss
with the defection last April of Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R). Elected in 1992 as a
Democrat, Campbell announced that he was switching parties the day after the balanced budget
amendment failed. Although he voted with the President 81% of the time, he said that he no
longer feels comfortable with the left wing of the Democratic party. The maverick Senator's
switch was fueled largely by local disputes among Colorado Democrats; however he has voted
with the administration only 16% of the time since his switch. Campbell was given a slot on
the Agriculture Committee after he switched. He also sits on the Energy & Natural Resources,
Veterans' Affairs and Indian Affairs Committees. His term expires in 1998 and many expect
him to run for governor, rather than seek re-election to the Senate.
Denver is represented by Rep. Pat Schroeder (D). First elected in 1972, she sits on the
Judiciary and National Security Committees.
House Races. At the moment, not much excitement is expected in next year's House races.
Rep. David Skaggs (D), who represents the Second District (Boulder and North Denver
suburbs), perennially lands on the GOP hit lists but has won re-election easily each cycle since
he first won the seat in 1986. Given his 57% victory in the midst of the 1994 GOP "tidal
wave," Skaggs appears to be in a strong position. Republican strategists are talking up a
challenge to Rep. Pat Schroeder (D), though the noise likely has more to do with their animosity
towards Schroeder than with their ability to win this seat. Even though her district has been
expanded beyond the Democratic stronghold of Denver into the suburbs and moderate
surrounding communities, it remains liberal enough that she should have little difficulty. Joe
Rogers (R), an attorney and former aide to Senator Brown, is the likely GOP nominee.
There appears to be little opportunity for picking up any of the state's four Republican-held
House seats. Rep. Joel Hefley (R) will be challenged by former state Senator Bill Hughes (R)
in the GOP primary because of Hefley's opposition to term limits, but he appears to be a strong
bet to win the primary and the general election. Reps. Dan Schaefer (R) and Scott McInnis (R)
have strong grips on their seats. Rep. Wayne Allard's (R) seat will be open because he is
running for the Senate. The seat is likely to remain in Republican hands.
AMENDMENT 2
Amendment 2, the Colorado initiative which repealed municipal gay rights laws, passed by a
slim margin in 1992 and inspired outrage and boycotts from national liberal groups. The State
Supreme Court ruled last October that the amendment is unconstitutional and the U.S. Supreme
Court will hear oral arguments on the state's appeal this fall. A decision is likely in the spring
of 1996. Despite pressure from gay rights groups, Attorney General Reno decided not to file
an amicus brief in the case. State Attorney General Gale Norton (R), who as mentioned above
is running for the U.S. Senate, will argue the case before the Supreme Court. Though
conservative groups and gay rights groups have already begun collecting signatures for
competing initiatives in 1996, the Supreme Court's decision will obviously have a major impact
on both sides' political strategy.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
July 26, 1995
REMARKS BY FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
AT THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO
Denver, Colorado
MRS. CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank
you for that warm welcome and thank you for filling this hall on
behalf of yourselves and other women throughout Colorado and the
United States who will be inspired and helped because there was a
conference today that talked about the issues confronting women
in our society. I'm pleased to be here with my friend, your
governor. I appreciate greatly the introduction that your
friend, the ambassador, gave me. And I want to thank all who are
associated with this extraordinary foundation that is, I believe,
the only statewide women's foundation in the entire country. And
for that Colorado should be very proud and you should applaud
yourselves. (Applause.)
I started my visit today by going to Mi Casa, an
organization that the Foundation has helped in the past. One
dedicated to providing women with the tools they need to become
self-sufficient, self-respecting. To build a future for
themselves, their families, and their communities. I was, as I
often am, struck by the courage of the women I met. The women
who were running the project, who every day come to work inspired
by the belief that they can help others make a difference. And
the women who came. Women currently on welfare who see a better
future for themselves and their children, but need help and
support in order to realize that. Women who are on the verge of
starting their own businesses or who already have. And proudly
tell you what they have accomplished and admit that they still
have a long way to go.
Success stories that are being shared because women who have
been successful as many in this hall are, have found time to come
share their experience. I had heard about Mi Casa for a long
time, but I had never had the opportunity to visit before. And I
though it was only fitting to visit a project that reflected what
this Foundation and this Conference is all about before I came to
speak with you this afternoon.
This summit, as it is being called, has great potential.
Not only to equip individual women with the tools they need, but
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to inspire all of us to reach out and provide opportunities for
those who might themselves not even think to ask. I looked at
the program and I've looked at what's ahead for you this
afternoon. And I think there is an extraordinary opportunity for
women this afternoon to participate by sharing their experiences,
by asking what they can do, by asking for help.
That was one of the ideas that came out this morning. How
often women are willing to say to one another if they are given
the chance, I need help. How can you help me? I think in a very
down-to-earth way that's what this summit is about. And I look
forward to reading the report of the summit and am pleased that
it will be shared with decision makers here in Denver and in
Washington.
There are few issues more important than economic security.
And if you are able to provide economic security for women, you
are more likely to insure that families and communities will also
be economically secure. That is something we have learned now
all over the world. During my visit to South Asia, I saw
programs that brought women together, like Mi Casa, gave them the
belief they were able to do for themselves, gave them the
confidence and the opportunity to go out and earn income for
themselves and their families, and watched as those women brought
their entire families economically along with them.
I met a women in a small dusty village in Bangladesh, who
was a member of a borrowing group called the Grameen Bank, which
lends money to the poorest of the poor in that poor country. The
loans are maybe 10, 25, 50 dollars. But each of those loans
represents a statement, a value, as to how that women who
receives that loan thinks of herself and what she can do for her
family. And one women whom I met said to me, she had gotten her
first loan and she had bought a milk COW. She got her second
loan and she bought her second milk cow. And she got her third
loan and she bought a rickshaw for her husband so he too could be
independent and no longer work for someone else.
It may look from so far away that those tiny steps are not
related to what happens here in Denver or Colorado. But on a
different scale that is what I saw at Mi Casa and that is what
this foundation is doing and that is what this summit is about.
It may be a milk COW in Bangladesh and it may be a computer to do
desk top publishing in Denver. But each is a means to enable a
women to pursue her own hopes and dreams.
Our economy is strong. Our economy is creating jobs. We
have seen good, positive growth and change. And yet, despite
what has occurred that we can be pleased about, we know that
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there are many men and women in America today who are working
very hard and not feeling and not actually seeing the results of
that hard work in increased income and a higher standard of
living for themselves and their families. That is one of our
biggest problems right now. How do we make sure that the energy,
the entrepreneurialism, the excitement that you find in groups of
women like the ones here can be replicated and spread throughout
our society. How do we make sure that all women who are willing
to work, willing to take responsibility, will be able to share in
the results of that kind of hard work?
We began looking for answers as the foundation here has
about what is happening in womens' lives by commissioning a study
through the labor department called Working Women Count. It was
a survey of two hundred and fifty thousand working women who were
asked questions about their income and what was happening at
their work places and how they were trying to create a life that
included home responsibilities and those outside the home. We
learned as all of us in this room know firsthand about the
challenges facing women who are attempting to create a better
opportunity for themselves and gain a measure of economic
security.
I have met with hundreds and hundreds of the women like
those I met with at Mi Casa and those I met with around the
country to talk about what economic security means to them. I'll
never forget talking with a young woman in Santa Fe, a divorced
mother of five children who has received no child support. Who
did not want to be on welfare, but who could not find a
traditional job that would enable her to pay for all of the
services that she needed for her children. So she sought a
position in an area she'd always dreamed of working. She wanted
to be a fire fighter. It was a long struggle and she became one
of only two women on the fire department's roster. But even with
her salary there, she found it difficult to support her children,
provide health insurance for them and do what is necessary to
keep a family together. So she took another, full-time job. So
there she was, working two full-time jobs, finding it difficult
to keep her children going and wondering what else she was
expected to do.
Wherever I go, I find the same concerns. I hear about the
needs women have. The needs to be respected on their jobs. To
be able to feel that they are taking good care of their children
if they leave them in child care. The need for flexible
schedules. The need for capital to start those small businesses
they dream about. Women are striving for economic security but
too often the tools they need are not readily available. What I
hope will come out of your summit is a realistic depiction of
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both the opportunities and the challenges confronting women.
What does it mean for us as a society that approximately sixty
percent of women with children under six are in the workforce
today. But a recently completed study about available child care
deplored the conditions available in many child care centers.
What does it mean at ninety-nine percent of women in the
United States will work for pay at some point in their lives.
But that time may come at a different point during the life
cycle. Some women may work in their twenties, and not in their
thirties or forties. Some may not work until their children are
grown and gone and want to enter the work force in their forties
or fifties, only to be met by disbelief and discrimination
because of their age.
How do we make the work world understand the full capacity
and potential of women? It is not just young women who have a
lot to contribute and should be given the opportunity. Women at
all ages of our lives should be respected for what we can bring
as well to the world of work. (Applause.) That means we have to
be more respectful of the choices women make. I don't know about
you, but I personally am very tired of seeing women pitted one
against the other. (Applause.) Seeing women who make the choice
to be full-time mothers pitted against women who have a full-time
career and either do not marry or do not have children. And
being pitted against women who are attempting to compose a life
that consists of both family and children and work. We ought to
stop pointing fingers at one another and hold out helping hands
so that every responsible choice a women makes can be supported.
(Applause.)
We have to be honest and realistic about the obstacles women
face when they make certain choices. It is not easy in many
homes in our country for a family with two working parents to
make the choice that one of those parents, usually the mother,
will take time off from work in order to care for young children.
Given the pressures for material possessions. Given some of the
social pressures that exist, that is not an easy choice. We
should do more to support women and men who wish to make that
choice. And we should do more to provide support through
governmental regulations and business policy to support leave
programs and flex time so that women do not have to make a very
difficult choice between their children and their work
responsibilities.
Before I came up here, I was handed a note from a women who
said, I am writing this note to let you know of something very
special that your husband, namely my husband, did for me. Two
months ago my husband died of congestive heart failure after a
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prolonged period of several years of illness. Because your
husband signed into law the Family Medical Leave Act I was able
to transport my husband to doctor appointments and hospital
visits and to keep my job and bring comfort to my husband at the
end of his life. We should do more to enable women to be good
mothers, good wives, and good caretakers if those are the
responsible choices they make. (Applause.) And both business
and government should be partners in that effort.
We also should do more in the work place so that women are
given the opportunities they earn. One of the single biggest
responses we received in the Working Women Count survey was to
hear from women who knew they were still not being paid at the
same level as men doing the same kind of work. They were not
being given the opportunities for promotion and advancement. We
should once and for all begin to treat people in the work place
on the basis of what they can contribute to the business, not on
what gender or what race they happen to be. But that is going to
take some real effort on the part of all of us, beyond
affirmative action. We should start practicing affirmative
thinking and see people as individuals and treat then in
accordance how they behave and how they perform on the job.
And then we come to that very difficult area of how to
support all of these efforts and maintain the kind of economic
security that families deserve to have. We've done a lot in this
country to make sure that older people have economic security at
the end of their work lives. Social security and medicare and
part of a contract that enables older people, particularly older
women, since women, on average, live longer that men, to have
some measure of economic security.
I want to stress how important that is. Because in all of
the talk about Medicare and Social Security it is easy to forget
we are talking about real people. The median annual income for
women sixty-five and over in our country is $8,500. Now stop and
think about that. The average median income. As you walk down
the street, as you leave today and you see women who are over
sixty-five, think to yourself, they are likely living on around
$8,500 a year.
I mention that because it's not only a question of their
economic security. It is also one that affects their children
and their grand-children. This intergenerational compact that we
have entered into have enabled many families to achieve a level
of economic security with the knowledge that their parents and
grandparents would be given the basic needs required towards the
end of their lives.
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We have to view things like health care as an investment in
people that enables them to achieve economic security. As a part
of what we mean when we talk about economic security. This is
the kind of challenge that we are debating now in our country and
there are many good ideas about how to provide the tools that
women and men and girls and boys need. But I think much of what
has to happen must begin inside each of us. As we assume
responsibility for ourselves. It must then expand outward into
the families that we are a part of. In the places where we do
work. In the communities that we live in and help to lead. We
should honestly discuss every one of the challenges confronting
women as they attempt to achieve economic security. Not in an
ideological way because I don't think there are right or left or
conservative or liberal answers for a lot of the challenges we
confront. I believe what is out there waiting for us to discover
are down-to-earth, common-sense, pragmatic solutions to the
problems people face every single day. As they work to keep body
and soul together. To give their families, and particularly
their children, better opportunities. As they work to achieve
their own god-given potential.
All through this country many businesses, many not for
profits, many families and communities have begun to solve a lot
of the problems that are discussed at this summit. We need to
replicate programs like Mi Casa. We need to look at businesses
that have ben creative in providing flex time and emergency child
care. Not just to treat them like their an aberration but to
figure out how we can band together to replicate what they have
provided which enables more people to take advantage of the
opportunities that are out there. For them to achieve economic
security.
This is a movement that is happening throughout the world.
Because we know that if we can only invest more in women, we will
not only lift up families, we will lift up communities and even
countries. I've seen it firsthand. I know that it is an issue
that if we pursue, we can move the agenda forward. Part of the
reason that I am excited about the upcoming Women's Conference
sponsored by the United Nations is because one of its primary
emphases will be on economic security.
We can come from our country and share the success stories,
like the Mi Casa resource center which did receive support from
this Foundation, which has reserved support from our federal
Small Business Administration, has received support from the
state of Colorado. It is one of the many training and counseling
centers that are beginning to make a real impact on the economies
of their communities. And we can learn from others around the
world who are making the same steps to invest in women.
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This upcoming conference in Beijing is an important
opportunity to focus attention on women. It is the chance we
have to come together as you have in this summit. And to share
ideas, to share our successes, to share failures, to learn what
works and what does not. It is important therefore in my opinion
that the United States play a very big leadership role in shaping
the agenda of this conference to focus on the bread and butter
issues. The issues that people get up the morning worrying about
and go to bed still concerned over.
Those who would argue we should boycott the Women's
Conference because the host country has a poor record on human
rights may be well motivated but as Madeline Albright, the chair
of our delegation has suggested, they miss the point. Human
rights cannot be separated from women's rights. Women's rights
to economic opportunity, to fair treatment, to political
participation, should be part of the human rights agenda. Women
do most of the work in the world. They have the responsibility
for raising our children in the world. They are the backbone of
the vast majority of families and communities. Anything we can
do to provide greater economic opportunity for women is a good
investment and the United States should do all that it can to
make sure that barriers to womens' participation are broken down
and that training and credit and political involvement and health
care and education are available to all women.
I hope that this summit's report will be part of what is
considered in Beijing. Certainly many of the issues that are on
the agenda for this summit are exactly what should be looked at
and discussed there. And out of it should come what you are
going to produce: a report in the words of many of the
participants about what is actually going on in the lives of
women today. Not an abstract discussion or an academic treatise.
But what does it mean to try to start a new business. What does
it mean as a women at Mi Casa said today, when your dream for a
new business dies in the parking lot of a bank. What does it
mean if you are a young girl who's dreaming big dreams about your
own future but get no encouragement from anyone close to you?
What does it mean that you have health care needs that you cannot
get met because in our country you have no insurance or in
another country there is no doctor or hospital to access? What
does it mean if you have the right to vote, as we do here, and
are able to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of our
suffrage, but so many women are too busy to exercise their vote?
Too busy to become involved in the basic right of citizenship.
Whereas women in other parts of the world are still denied
suffrage or are so prevented from exercising it, that it's grant
is a farce. What does it mean for all of us to know that
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economic security is not within reach for millions for our fellow
women in America and billions of other women around our globe?
These are questions that don't belong just in the reports
from summits, or just in the platforms from UN conferences.
These are questions that each of us should be asking ourselves --
talking about with our friends -- discussing in our work places,
our churches, everywhere we gather. Because as the Governor
said, economic security is not an end in itself. We all know
more people than we can count that have more economic security
than you or I will see in a lifetime, but don't have a lot of
what else makes life worth living. Yet it is absolutely fair to
say that poverty and stress in the face of economic challenge
render the lives of millions of women difficult, if not
impossible.
So yes, let's work as hard as each of us knows to do what we
can to make it possible for every women in every family to have
enough economic security. That she's able to feel good about her
future and the future she can hold out to her children. Because
it is from that point then, when people at that level of
security, that they can begin worrying about quality of life in
their communities. When they can begin reaching out more to help
each other. And then those of us who are economic secure, let's
stop and ask ourselves what more can we do to make it possible
for more people to feel that they have the choices that we have
taken for granted.
So although the foundation is hosting this summit on
economic security, I see its agenda as going far beyond what is
being discussed today. I see it as a statement about the
potential and promise of women everywhere. And I see it as a
challenge to each of us. That we go forth from this day
determined to do what we can for ourselves. To take
responsibility. To quit, as a friend of mine said, wringing our
hands over our problems so that we can roll up our sleeves and
get to work. And I also see it as part of a great effort to
make, that they we provide those opportunities necessary for
every women willing to seize them. So that all of us can move
towards economic security as a way of moving toward a juster,
more hopeful society for ourselves and our children.
Thank you all very much.
# # #
July 25, 1995
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ANNUAL LUNCHEON
DATE:
July 26, 1995
TIME:
12:00 pm
LOCATION:
Denver Convention Center
FROM:
Brenda Costello
I.
PURPOSE
To deliver the keynote address at The Women's Foundation of Colorado Annual
Luncheon and to highlight the importance of women's economic security.
II.
BACKGROUND
Women's Foundation of Colorado
The Women's Foundation of Colorado (WFC) is a public charity that supports
programs to help women and girls throughout the state become economically secure.
It provides grants to community-based organizations, such as Mi Casa Resource
Center. Ambassador Swanee Hunt and Dottie Lamm, former First Lady of Colorado,
established the organization in 1986. During the past eight years, the Foundation has
distributed over $1.5 million in grants while building its endowment to $6 million.
Although the WFC does not lobby for legislation, their main issues of concern are
gender equity in education, affirm action (they do not take an official stand on this
issue), access to capitol for women and minorities, development opportunities for
women and minorities, and child care. The WFC stressed that they have always been
very inclusive and non-partisan.
The Women's Foundation of Colorado helped create Girls Count, a non-profit
organization aimed at increasing women's economic security by raising awareness of
girl's career choices and the skills required to pursue those careers. The WFC and
Girls Count co-produced the 1994 report "The Status of Women and Girls in
Colorado."
According to the staff at WFC, their organization has the third largest endowment of
a women's fund in the country, behind only the Ms. Foundation and the Minnesota
Women's Fund.
Summit on Women's Economic Security
The idea for the Summit came as a result of the briefing you held in mid-March for
foundation representatives, including WFC representatives, on your South Asia trip
(see speech attached). The Summit is a day-long event that will bring together
leaders from the private sector, government, foundations and organizations that serve
women to discuss key issues affecting women's economic security. There will be
several discussion workshops in the morning sessions, covering a wide variety of
topics and culminating in a concept paper that will be submitted to the U.S.
Delegation to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women. The purpose of this
concept paper is to assist policy makers and funders in evaluating policies and
resource allocation in the area of women's economic security.
Speakers at the Summit include U.S. Ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt, Marjorie
Margolies Mezvinsky, Director, U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on Women,
Dottie Lamm, former first lady of Colorado, Lynn Cutler, and Betsy Myers, White
House Director of Women's Outreach.
Key sponsors for the Summit are Norwest Banks, Axem Resources, Inc. (Energy &
Natural Resources), Holme, Roberts & Owen (law firm), and Coopers & Lybrand.
Reception/Photo
Prior to the luncheon, you will attend a small reception/photo-op with group of
approximately 40 guests who were strong supporters of the Summit.
Luncheon
You will be the keynote speaker at the WFC Annual Luncheon, the centerpiece of the
Summit. Until last year, the keynote speaker has always been the foundation's
President, but that practice has been changed due to the rapid growth of the
foundation. In 1994, the keynote speaker was Jane E. Vennard, author and sister of
Dottie Lamm.
You will be seated at the head table with:
Kip Hushes - Norwest Bank
Gov. Roy Romer
Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, Director, U.S. Delegation to U.N. Fourth World
Conference on Women
Bertha Lynn - News anchor, Master of Ceremonies
-PODIUM-
Betsy Considine, President, WFC
HRC
Ambassador Swanee Hunt (introducing HRC)
Letty Bass, Exec Dir, WFC
Audience
Approximately 3,000 people are expected to attend, including members of WFC's
donor base from across Colorado, women's Chambers of Commerce, non-profit
organizations with related interests, education centers, college educated individuals
interested or involved with women's issues who work in non-profits and in the
corporate world. The Foundation expects approximately 5 percent male attendance.
III. PARTICIPANTS
Reception/Photo
-See guest list attached
Luncheon
-HRC
-Kip Hushes, Northwest Bank
-Gov. Roy Romer
-Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, Director, U.S. Delegation to U.N. Fourth World
Conference on Women
-Bertha Lynn - News anchor, Master of Ceremonies
-Betsy Considine, President, WFC
-Ambassador Swanee Hunt (introducing HRC)
-Letty Bass, Executive Director, WFC
IV.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
Reception/Photo
HRC arrives and gives brief greetings
Carol Tierney, Women's Foundation of Colorado member, escorts HRC
through photo/receiving line
Guests depart for luncheon
HRC and Betsy Considine proceed to dais
Luncheon
Bertha Lynn announces HRC and Betsy Considine
Bertha Lynn welcomes and gives introductory remarks
Lunch is served
Betsy Considine gives remarks following lunch
Ambassador Swanee Hunt introduces HRC
HRC speaks
Bertha Lynn gives brief closing remarks
HRC departs
V. PRESS
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Overview of Key Economic Issues for Women in America
Linda Tarr-Whelan, President, The Center for Policy Alternatives
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Conference on Women
Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, Director, U.S. Delegation
Summit Purpose
Dorrie Lamm, former First Lady of Colorado, Columnist
8:45 - 10:30
Special Session for Girls
Joline Godfrey and girls ages 15-17 will play An Income of Her Own, a board
game designed to introduce teenage girls to their own entrepreneurial spirit
9:45 - 10:30 Featured Speakers - Choose one session
Guts and Glory: Women and the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Raydean Acevedo, President and CEO, Research Management Consultants
Betsy Myers, Director of Women's Issues and Outreach, The White House
Throughout the country, women are branching out on their own, opening
businesses at a record pace and, in the process, changing the business
environment as we know it. But the road to self-employment isn't an easy one.
More than vision, it takes courage, stamina and perseverance to get started and
stay with it. Learn the secrets to success and hear perspectives of two women
entrepreneurs.
The WOMENS Foi indation of Colorado
9:45 - 10:30 Featured Speakers - Continued
Continuum for Growth: Education and Training for Employment
Ledy Garcia-Eckstein, Executive Director, Colorado Workforce Coordinating
Council
Sandra Smoley, R.N., Secretary, California Health and Welfare Agency
As the spirit of change sweeps through the nation, growing numbers of states,
non-profits, corporations and private organizations are proposing their own
solutions to one of our most intractable problems - growing and maintaining an
educated work force and, in this process, finding ways to break down gender-
based barriers to educational and employment opportunities. This session
explores the future of government-funded education and training as well as the
ramifications and opportunities of almost certain welfare reform.
The Road to the Top: Women and Leadership
Judith Albino, President, University of Colorado at Boulder
Gayle Greer, Vice President, National Operations, Time Warner Cable
Two proven leaders draw on their observations and experiences to answer such
questions as what leadership models work, how women's leadership styles differ
from men's, how a successful woman's style is perceived and received and what
qualities it takes to get to the top.
The Information Generation: The Great Equalizer
Pamela Pease, Dean of Academic Programs, International University College
Solomon Trujillo,, President and CEO, US West Communications Group
Technology -- its lucrative career prospects and many innovations - holds perhaps
the greatest promise for helping women to get ahead. Tools such as satellite
classrooms and the information superhighway truly have become great equalizers,
allowing people rich and poor, in cities and rural areas, access to information,
knowledge and education. But more than just an equalizer it may also prove to
be a liberator, freeing people from the need to be in an office and allowing them
the flexibility to better meet the needs of both employer and family.
10:45 - 11:30 Featured Speakers - Choose one session
Pioneers: Opening Doors for Women
Muriel Siebert, President, Muriel Siebert and Co., Inc. - NY
Vision -- we often equate it with success -- is it a matter of pure luck or is it a
calculated strategy? Few would know the answer to this better than Muriel
Siebert. Often referred to as the "first woman of finance," Siebert is the
quintessential entrepreneur - courageous and not afraid to speak out. In 1967,
she became the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange -
overcoming ridicule and open hostility to establish one of the most successful
investment houses on Wall Street.
10:45 - 11:30 Featured Speakers - Continued
Megatrends for Women: Knowledge for the Future
Patricia Aburdene, Author
Co-author of Megarrends 2000 and Megatrends for Women, Aburdene analyzes
the impact of social and economic change on business and society, looks at the
future of the corporation and explores the leadership style of the new information
economy, and how the changes will impact women's economic security and
opportunity.
Economic Security: Women and What They Need to Know
Jessica Bibliowicz, President of Smith Barney Mutual Funds - NY
Connie Evans, President, Women's Self-Employment Project in Chicago
A lesson in economic literacy and microenterprise development this session looks
at women's savings and retirement-planning patterns, analyzes their relationship
with development, demystifies investing and delves into self-employment options
and strategies to unlock the doors to economic security.
Toward Bright Futures: Messages for Girls
Joline Godfrey, Author and founder of An Income of Her Own
With an eye toward the women of tomorrow, Godfrey, author of Our Wildest
Dreams and No More Frogs to Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls
is on a crusade to teach young women the value of economic proficiency,
entreprenuership and education. This session will explore what young women
must do and what messages parents, teachers and mentors must give them to
succeed in an ever-changing, constantly challenging world. This session will give
insight into strategies that help girls reach their full potential.
12:00 - 1:30 The Women's Foundation of Colorado Annual Luncheon
Master of Ceremonies - Bertha Lynn, Anchor, KMGH Channel 7 News
Mission of the Women's Foundation -- Betsy Considine, Foundation President
Introduction of Keynote Speaker -- Swanee Hunt, U.S. Ambassador to Austria
Keynote Address -- First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
1:45 - 3:15 Panel Discussions - panelists will present information on trends, issues and
successful strategies on the following topics. After these presentations,
participants will break into smaller, facilitated discussion groups - choose one
The Challenge: Balancing Family and Work (afternoon only
Panelist:
Ellen Galinsky, Co-President, Families and Work Institute - NY
Galinsky will address issues such as benefits, child care, supportive workplaces
and other ways to balance the demands of family and work. Emphasis will be
placed on successful strategies and programs which contribute to both healthy
homes and a productive work environment.
Megatrends for Women: Knowledge for the Future
Panelist:
Nancy McCallin, Chief Economist, Colorado Legislative Council
Panelist:
Lauren Casteel, President, The Hunt Alternatives Fund
Speakers will address emerging economic, political and social trends as they
relate to women's economic security. Discussion will highlight progress and
successful programs and will identify areas which still challenge women today.
Economic Security: Women and What They Need to Know
Panelist:
Toby Burroughs, Vice President and Regional Representative,
Intercapital Division, Dean Witter
Panelist:
Andrea Van Steenhouse, Psychologist, Talk-Show Host
Burroughs will provide and overview of financial options and strategies important
to attaining economic security for women. Van Steenhouse will then follow with
a psychological perspective on the way women relate to power and money.
Guts and Glory: Women and the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Panelists: Anneite Quintana, Owner and President, Excel Professional
Services
Peg Johnston, Principal, Business Acquisitions, Ltd.
Quintana, a successful entrepreneur, will share her insights on what it takes to
start, operate and grow a business. Johnston, who specializes in coporate
acquisitions, will discuss elements of a healthy company and analyze the
differences and similarities in companies owned by men and women.
The Road to the Top: Women and Leadership
Panelists:
Kathryn Whimire, former mayor of Houston
Katherine Archuleta, Deputy Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary
of Transportation
These two prominent leaders will discuss the importance of growing leadership
at all levels within corporations, government, communities, and non-profit
organizations.
1:45 - 3:15 Panel Discussions - Continued
Continuum for Growth: Education and Training for Employment
Panelists:
Laurie Harvey, Executive Director, Colorado Women's
Employment and Education
Linda Murphy, Gender Equity Coordinator, Colorado Community
College & Occupational Education System
As the demands of the workforce increase, the need for women to reinvest in
themselves through education and training is essential to career advancement.
Harvey and Murphy will highlight the numerous educational options available to
women which enable them to acheive financial independence.
3:30 - 4:00
Closing Ceremony
Introduction of closing speaker
Lynn Cutler, U.S. Delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on
Women and Senior Vice President, The Kamber Group
Closing Presentation: Women's Stories from the Balkans
Swanee Hunt, U.S. Ambassador to Austria
Colorado Children's Chorale
Financial Highlights
Sources of Funds
Uses of Funds
Individual
Administration 10%
Special
Contributions
32%
10%
Events
32%
Fundraising
13%
13%
13%
13%
45%
Programs
45%
24%
31%
32%
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Restricted &
Endowment
Other Income
Endowment
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31%
Contributions
32%
24%
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KIP HUGHES
Norwest Bank Colorado
Kip Hughes is a vice president of Norwest Bank Colorado, responsible for
local marketing and sales support for the company's 70 locations, as well as
Colorado government relations.
Prior to this, Hughes was a via president at Norwest Bank Denver,
responsible for business development and coordination of the bank's retail
market segments including Asian, Seniors, Women, Young Professionals,
Hispanic and Black. Earlier she was manager of the Denver bank's women's
banking center, Colorado largest women's banking department. Deposit
dollars doubled and loans tripled during the six years that Hughes headed
the center. She has been with Norwest since mid-1985.
Hughes began her career as a buyer for the PICO Division of Sargent
Industries, a major manufacturer of airline passenger safety equipment. She
moved through the ranks and was promoted to contracts manager in 1974,
where she managed the division's sales and marketing efforts including the
launch of the first safety and survival systems designed specifically for
corporate aviation. In 1977, Hughes chose the entrepreneurial experience,
opening her own marketing, sales and advertising firm. Four years later, she
moved to Denver-based PHH Aviation Systems as marketing director
responsible for account maintenance, marketing and national sales of
computer-based management systems to the flight departments of Fortune
500 companies. Hughes is a private pflot.
A native of New York, Hughes attended high school in England and received
her Associate of Arts degree from Bradford (Mass.) College. She has a
working knowledge of French and Greek. Hughes serves as a member of the
boards of Girls Scouts-Mile High Council, Planned Parenthood and the
Colorado Women's Business Development Committee. She is a graduate of
Leadership Denver 95.
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BIOGRAPHY OF MARJORIE MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY
Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky is the Director of the United
States Delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference
on Women.
Marjorie served as the United States Representative from
Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District in the 103rd
Congressional session. She is the first woman ever elected in
her own right to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent
Pennsylvania.
A graduate of the University of Fennsylvania and a CBS News
Foundation Fellow at Columbia University, Marjorie began her
career as a television journalist at WCAU-TV in philadelphia.
From 1971 until 1991. Marjorie was with NBC and its owned
and operated stations in both New York City and Washington,
D.C.. She was a contributing correspondent to the Today Show,
Sunday Today, A Closer Look CNBC, and Real Life with Jane
Pauley. Marjorie's reporting has won five Emmys as well as
numerous other awards.
Following her award-winning series on the plight of
Southeast Asian war orphans, Marjorie became the first
unmarried U.S. citizen to adopt a foreign child. Lee Heh
arrived from Korea 1n 1970 and was joined four years later by
Holly from Vietnam. Marjorie chronicled their experiences in
the 1976 best-seller, "They Came to Stay," the first of four
books she has written. Her most recent book, written in 1993,
is entitled "A Woman's Place the Freshmen Women Who Changed
the Face of Congress."
In 1975, Marjorie married Congressman Edward Mervineky, who
served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate
investigation. Between their combined family of 11 children,
and the refugee families they've been sponsoring since their
marriage, their household has taken care of 25 children.
During her term in the House, Marjorie sat on the Committee
on Energy and Commerce, with subcommittee assignments on
Oversight & Investigations and Telecommunications and Finance.
In addition, she was a member of the Committee on Small
Business and the Committee on Government Operations.
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BERTHA LYNN
BIOGRAPHY
Bertha Lynn, anchor and reporter, joined KMGH-TV Colorado's 7 in October 1984.
Currently anchoring Colorado's 7 News at 8 and 10pm, she was previously associated
with KUSA-TV in Denver for eight years. While at KUSA-TV, she anchored the
6:30am and Noon news, the 4:00pm "Newscope", and "Sundown", a 6:30pm
magazine show. She also co-hosted a weekly community affairs program on KRMA-
TV, a Denver Public Broadcast television station.
Lynn is currently serving on the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District Board, an
appointment made by Governor Roy Romer, Is a member of Women's Forum, an
organization comprised of women who are community leaders, and also serves on the
Executive Committee of Colorado Women's Foundation. In addition, she has been
active on the board of National Jewish Hospital Women's Division, has served as a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Denver Symphony Association, and a board
member of Denver Children's Home, United Cerebral Palay, KCFR Public Radio, The
Children's Museum, Safehouse for Battered Women, Denver Housing Authority
Education Foundation and the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
She was a founding member of the Denver Women's Partnership and the Year for All
Denver Women 1984, during which she co-chaired the Salute to Women Who
Communicate.
Lynn la the recipient of the Emmy for "Best ir-Personality" by the National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Colorado Chapter: Distinguished
Communicator Award from the University of Denver: Journallst of the Year for
Broadoasting from the Colorado Association of Black Journallsts; "Woman of
Distinction" Award from the Rocky Mountain News and Hyatt Regency; and the Living
Portrait Honor from the National Council of Negro Women.
Other awards and honors Lynn has received Include an Iris Award from the National
Association of Television Program Executives, a One to One Foundation Award and
a National ARC Excellence Award from the Association for Retarded Citizens; the
Distinguished Service award form Womenschool of Denver; the Denver Opportunity
Headstart Award and the YWCA President's Award.
Lynn la a cum laude graduate of Washington State University with a B.A. In
Communications. While In college, she was an exchange student at the Sorbonne In
Paris, France and the University of Urbino in Italy. She is married to Larry Naves, a
Denver District Judge. The are the parents of three children.
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Betsy Callaway Considine
President, The Women's Foundation of Colorado
Family:
Raised in rural Georgia, the oldest of five children; married Terry
Considine 10. in 1976; has three children, Hollis, 14; Thalia (Tay), 12; and Elizabeth (Tizzie),
Education:
Duke University, BA in Religion, 1972. Harvard University, Graduate
School of Business, MBA 1977.
Work:
Currently driving car pool and listening to kids. Previously, has worked in
the Nixon White House, managed real estate assets for Boston-based REIT, started her
own company, "Betsy's Construction Company," in residential reconstruction, been part
of a teaching team at the University of Denver, and managed a 300 head cow-calf
ranching operation in Carbondale, Colorado.
Philanthropy: The Women's Foundation of Colorado, Board of Trustees, President,
1995. Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, Board of Trustees; Horticulture Committee Chair.
Ricks Center for Gifted Young Children at the University of Denver, Board of Directors.
Politics:
Active in Republican politics supporting her husband Terry Considine, who
is a Conservative. He managed Bill Armstrong's 1984 re-election US Senate campaign,
served in the Colorado State Senate, is known as the "Father of Term Limits," and was
the Republican nominee for US Senate in 1992.
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Letty Bass
Executive Director
The Women's Foundation of Colorado
1580 Logan Street, Suite 500
Denver, Colorado 80203
Tel: 832-8800 FAX: 832-8362
Letty Bass is the Executive Director of The Women's Foundation of Colorado. She is
responsible for the overall operation of the public charity and manages the programs and
fundraising activities. The Foundation develops resources and provides support 10 endeavors
that promote the full participation of women and girls in society. The statewide foundation has
an endowment of $6 million, has granted over $1.5 million and was selected outstanding
foundation in Colorado on National Philanthropy Day in 1991. She joined the Foundation as
Grunts Assistant prior to being named Executive Director in 1990.
A native of Texas, Letty received her Bachelors degree in Education and Masters degree
in Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University and began her career as an elementary
school teacher. She moved to Denver in 1981 and has been actively involved as a community
volunteer, researching critical community needs, chairing fundraising events and developing
special projects. Letty has served on the Board of several not-for-profus, participated in the
Leadership Denver Class of 1992, serves on the Executive Committee of the Colorado
Association of Foundations and is a member of Women and Corporate Philanthropy. She has
been a guest lecturer at the University of Denver School of Social Work and is passionate about
the importance of early childhood education.
Letty and her husband Bill have three children: WILL, 19, is a sophomore at C.U.
Boulder; Laurance, 17 and Carrie, 16 attend Cherry Creek High School.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER
1995 SUMMIT
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ECONOMIC
SECURITY
SWANEE HUNT, Ph.D.
United States Ambassador To Austria
On December 16, 1993, Swanee Hunt presented her credentials to the President of Austria,
officially becoming the ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Austria
Since her appointment, Hunt has engaged Austrians in a serious dialogue regarding the
emerging security structure of & new, united Europe. She has represented U.S. and Austrian
interests to numerous and varied audiences and has communicated Austria's attractiveness as a
regional. as well as bilateral, economic base for international trading partnerships and for American
firms doing business in Central Europe.
As ambassador, Hunt has paid active attention to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and
has been the conduit between the U.S. and Austria in forging efforts for humanitarian support and
the two country's common interests in seeking solutions. As a result of her travels throughout
Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia, she formatted a regional program, the Vienna Women's Initiative,
encouraging the involvement of women in the development of all aspects of civil society within the
newly emerging democracies in Central Europe.
Throughout her career, Hunt has been in the forefront of both private and governmental
initiatives to improve the condition of the disadvantaged in American society. She is founder and
chair of The Hunt Alternatives Fund, a private foundation established in 1981, funding programs to
address pressing problems of noverty and discrimination. She has extensivo experience in shaping
domestic public policy in areas such as safety, health care, education, housing and jobs. children and
familios, the homeless, empowerment of women and girls, and mental health.
Hunt is an accomplished photographer. She writes a weekly column in the largest circulating
daily newspaper in Austria, and delivers a brief message from America through a weekly radio show
on the only English language radio station in Vienna.
Hunt holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy. two master's degrees - in psychology and religion
and a doctorate in theology. She has been published in several professional journals of psychology
and religion, and has served as a minister of pastoral care at an ccumenical urban church Hunt has
received numerous awards from religious and civic organizations for her efforts to integrate the
principles of faith into social action.
The WOMENS Foundation of Colorado
1580 Logan Street. Suite 500
Denver.
CO
80203
(303) 832-8800
Dottie Lamm, a social worker who has counseled welfare mothers,
unwed pregnant teenagers, and families of emotionally disturbed
children, has worked hundreds of hours for the benafit of women and
children in Colorado. AS Colorado's First Lady (1975-1987), she
initiated and served as Chairwoman of the Governor's Task Force on
children, member of the Governor's Commission on Women, and
President and founding member of the Women's Foundation of
Colorado. Dottie has spoken to countless school classes on
citizenship and the importance of reading and learning. As a
breast cancer survivor (1981), she lends emotional support to
cancer patients experiencing chemotherapy. Presently a paid public
speaker, Dottie donates considerable speaking time to educational,
feminist, and charitable endeavors. One word to summarize her
values? Share.
The Dottie Lamm Award is given to a young woman who will be a
junior in high school 1990-91 and who exemplifies the altruistic
values that we associate with Dottie's life and career. The
awardes will receive $1,000 and will serve for one year on the
Board of Trustees of The Woman's Foundation of Colorado, beginning
the following January, travel expenses included. The award will
be presented in November.
1995 SUMMIT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ON WOMEN'S
CONTACT: Anne Mosle
ECONOMIC
303/832-3388
SECURITY
THOUSANDS SET TO ATTEND
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC SECURITY SUMMIT
DENVER, Colo. - July 20, 1995 - More than 3,000 people are gathering to explore women's economic
security issues with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and other influential women in government, the
private sector and the non-profit community, during an unprecedented national economic summit in
Denver on Wednesday, July 26. The forum is hosted hy The Women's Foundation of Colorado.
Participants in the one day "Summit on Wumen's Economic Security," scheduled at the
Colorado Convention Center, will explore issues impacting economic self-sufficiency, look at new ideas
and approaches to tackling these concerns and identify strategies and programs
Hillary Clinton will give the luncheon keynote address.
Findings and conclusions from the meeting will be compiled into a report and sent to key policy-
makers, foundations, organizations dealing with women's issues and the U.S. delegation to the United
Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women scheduled in September.
"Only by linking private, public and non-profit sector leaders to form state and local
partnerships will we create the synergy needed to tackle and overcome the obstacles to establishing
economic security for women," said Linda Tarr-Whelan, president of The Center for Policy Alternatives
and a guest speaker at the conference. "The Women's Foundation of Colorado has been instrumental in
forging the coalitions needed to address the issues, while funding programs for women in Colorado and
serving as a model for other such organizations nationwide."
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Summit speakers include: Raydean Acevedo, president and CEO of Research Management
Consultants; Betsy Myers, director of Women's Issues and Outreach, The White House; Muriel Siebert,
president of Siebert and Associates; Patricia Aburdene, co-author of Megatrends for Women, executive
vice-president of Megatrends Limited; Swanee Hunt, U.S. Ambassador to Austria; Ledy Garcia-
Eckstein, executive director of the Colorado Workforce Coordinating Council; Jessica Bibliowicz,
president of Smith Barney Mutual Funds; Connie Evans, president of the Women's Self-Employment
Project; Joline Godfrey, founder of An Income of Her Own, author of Our Wildest Dreams and No
More Frogs to Kiss; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of US West Communications Group; Ellen
Galinsky, co-president of the Families and Work Institute; Gayle Greer, vice president of national
operations for Time Warner Cable; Judith Albino, president of the University of Colorado at Boulder;
Kathryn Whitmire, former mayor of Houston; Sandra Smoley, secretary of the California Health and
Welfare Agency; Pamela Pease, dean of Academic Programs, for International University College;
Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, director of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Fourth World Conference;
Dottie Lamm, former first lady of Colorado; and Lynn Cutler, senior vice president of The Kamber
Group.
"The enthusiastic response to this forum suggests women's self-sufficiency issues are gaining
ground in terms of awareness," said Letty Hass, executive director of The Women's Foundation of
Colorado. "We seek to harness information shared by people from all sectors of society to help promote
systemic change."
The Women's Foundation of Colorado is a public charity foundation that supports programs to
help women and girls throughout the state become economically secure. Since its inception in 1986, the
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Foundation has provided more than $1.5 million in grants to 85 community-based organizations serving
women in Colorado. It has built an endowment of $6 million, with the goal of creating a
$10 million endowment by the year 2000 to ensure grant funding into the future. All proceeds from the
lunchean will go toward that end.
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Denver Summit To Explore New Trends in Women's Employment
DENVER (AP) Women are increasingly turning to self employment and
entrepreneurship because corporate jobs provide little flexibility for
lies, child care and elder care, according to a key study updated for
week's national Summit on Women's Economic Security.
The new movement for women in the workforce is the key theme in
a report issued in 1992 by the Center for Policy Alternatives and the Ms.
Foundation and updated this yea, said Linda Tarr-Whelan, president of the
non-profit center based in Washington, D.C.
Tarr-Whelan is slated to speak at the opening session of the national
Summit on Women's Economic Security Wednesday at the Colorado Convention
Center.
The summit, hosted by the Women's Foundation of Colorado, will draw
national leaders to explore problems and solutions to women's economic
self-sufficiency. Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver the keynote address.
Colorado is expected to be in the spotlight for the summit because it
ranks in the top three states in the nation for women-owned businesses. Two
out of three new businesses in Colorado are started by women.
''There's a lot of curiosity about Colorado," said Letty Bass, executive
director of the Women's Foundation.
Tarr-Whelan said women across the nation are also watching Colorado's
family medical leave laws, which allow temporary disability insurance to be
used for pregnancies.
The summit is expected to talk about wages, which continues to be an
overriding issue. According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, in
1993 women's wages are still only 71.5 percent of men's wages.
In Colorado, where women make up 57 percent of the workforce, women make
70 percent of what men make. More than half of Colorado female heads of
eholds with children under 5 make incomes at the federal poverty level
890 for a family of three.
Dass'said the summit will examine "the challenge of moving women into
making living wages.
A report from the summit will be sent to key policy-makers, organizations
and governments dealing with women's issues, Bass said. Also the report will
be forwarded to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing this September.
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HEADLINE: Report bemoans status of women
BYLINE: Judith Brimberg, Denver Post Staff Writer
BODY:
Of the 73 baby girls born in Colorado each day, 13 will experience living in
poverty before entering school, a majority will spend time in a single-parent
home and 62 will be sexually harassed while in school unless economic and
societal changes occur, a new study suggests.
"The Status of Women and Girls in Colorado" is based on 1990 U.S. census data
and studies by two state agencies as well as the American Association of
University Women. It seeks to encourage changes that will allow women to become
more financially secure, said Letty Bass of the Women's Foundation of Colorado.
The foundation and Girls Count prepared the study, released today.
If three things happen - if women finish high school, wait to have children
et work experience - "women are likely to be economically secure as adults
ess. likely to live in poverty," Bass said.
But their educational environment, with its overtones of sexual harassment
and low academic expectations; other violent crimes directed at them; and the
disparity between the earnings of men and women all contribute to women's
lifetime of economic inequity, the report said.
"Somehow, girls still are being shortchanged by our society and by its formal
and informal means of preparing our young for adulthood, " said Judy Patrick,
director of Girls Count. "The answers to why our daughters become so discouraged
and lack math, science and technical skills are not simple and are buried in our
culture. Yet the time and place for intervention must be while the girls are
young and in school."
If the statistics contained in the report remain unchanged, a majority of the
state's women will become the sole supporters of their families at some point.
In addition, while the majority will live alone after age 65, only 18 will enter
retirement with a pension, the report said. Nationwide, retired women average
only 60 percent of the income of retired men.
Beginning in middle school and continuing through high school, girls suffer
from a slide in self-esteem and do less well than boys in math, science and
technology, the study said.
Colorado, girls in the class of 1994 scored an average of 48 points below
in math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
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6
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Yet fewer than one-quarter of Colorado's school districts have a plan to
uate themselves on whether they treat the sexes equally, the report said.
'Girls' self-esteem is further derailed when their school or home environment
is violent or unsafe," Patrick said.
"Our findings suggest attention is long overdue regarding the violent crimes
committed against girls Many of these girls become women who are entrenched
in a cycle of abuse, which tends to prohibit them from becoming
self-sufficient."
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In Colorado, girls are sexually abused at five times the rate of boys, the
report said. As adults, up to one-third will be battered by a male partner if
the statistics remain unchanged.
"This incidence of violence and abuse is alarming, as are the long-term
repercussions, Patrick said.
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HEADLINE: Foundation's impact growing
BYLINE: Joanne Davidson, Society
BODY:
Bigger isn't always better, unless you're talking about the Women's
Foundation of Colorado. The bigger it gets, the greater the impact it has on
giving girls and women the boost they need to live more economically secure
lives.
Last week, before 1,500 guests attending breakfast and luncheon sessions at
the Marriott City Center, President Mary Ann Guillot announced that $ 112,000
was being awarded to 10 agencies that provide employment and training services
to women.
Recipients range from Colorado Women's Employment and Education (CWEE) and Mi
Casa Resource Center, both in Denver, to Resource Center Inc. in Grand Junction
the Rural Communities Resource Center in Yuma. Since its start in 1986, $
aillion has gone to 73 programs statewide.
Thursday's mega-event also included a talk on positive parenting for girls by
author-educator Jane Vennard and presentation of the 1994 Dottie Lamm Award (a $
1,000 scholarship and a one-year term on the foundation's board of trustees) to
Kelly Brady, a junior at Greeley Central High School.
The weeks leading up to the big day were hectic for all involved, what with
programs to proofread, scripts to write, seating assignments to be made - and on
and on. Even so, quite a few of the committee members juggled other
responsibilities, as well.
Program chairwoman Karel Horney, for instance, had a key role in the Susan G.
Komen Foundation Race for the Cure (she organized the party to thank
patron-level supporters) i publicity coordinator Margaret Cunningham and her
husband, Jim, moved into a new home and Toni Cohig from the ticket committee
co-chaired a benefit for SafeHouse, helped with a daughter's wedding and then
took skeet-shooting lessons with her former college roommate.
Event chairwoman Virginia Morrison Love traveled to Slovenia with her
husband, Andy, a colonel in the Colorado National Guard. Slovenia, she
explained, is interested in patterning its national guard after Colorado's. Just
before the Loves left for Eastern Europe, Virginia met with Swanee Hunt, a
founder of the Women's Foundation who is now the U.S. ambassador to Austria.
had returned to Denver to speak at the Governor's Mansion about Women Will,
J planned-giving program being established by the foundation.
PAGE
4
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Guests had lots of good news to share, too. Nanette Fishman and Theresa
atrick reported that the 1994 edition of Girls Night Out is sold out. It's
20 at the Marriott City Center, stars Pam Stone from TV's "Coach" and
L .fits Girls Inc. Sue Anschutz Rodgers, there with Piton Foundation Director
Mary Gittings Cronin and Cille Williams, said she'd just learned that tomorrow's
Heart of Gold Ball, where she'll be honored by Food Bank of the Rockies, is at
capacity, too.
The foundation's president-elect, Betsy Considine, attended both the
breakfast and lunch, as did executive director Letty Bass. Kathy Lee lunched
with her Cherry Hills Village neighbors Adrienne Singleton and Kristin
Lohmiller; other familiar faces in the noontime crowd were Sherri Koelbel;
pediatrician Dean Prina; Sue Damour; Norwest Banks Chairman John Nelson; Channel
4's Reynelda Muse and McClain Finlon Advertising principal Cathey Finlon.
Also, former Junior League Presidents Marty Segelke, Katherine Fulford and
Helen Ruth Mozer; Connie Graham and Susan Barnes-Gelt from the University of
Colorado; Carol Canon; Lauren Casteel from the Hunt Alternatives Fund; Wendy
Clayton; special projects consultant Louise B. Connor; and Gordon Butz,
executive director of the Colorado Judicial Institute.
THIS AND THAT: Sports commentator Dick Vitale, whose sister, Terry, publishes
Colorado Expression magazine, will be here tomorrow to speak at a Regis Jesuit
High School dinner. It's at the Colorado Convention Center; for tickets, call
680-8586 Metro Mobility Auxiliary welcomes new members at a tea that begins
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Barry Hirschfeld residence. Call 292-6914.
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PM-CO--Women's Summit, 370
Denver Summit To Explore New Trends in Women's Employment
DENVER (AP) Women are increasingly turning to self employment and
entrepreneurship because corporate jobs provide little flexibility for
lies, child care and elder care, according to a key study updated for
week's national Summit on Women's Economic Security.
The new movement for women in the workforce is the key theme in
a report issued in 1992 by the Center for Policy Alternatives and the Ms.
Foundation and updated this yea, said Linda Tarr-Whelan, president of the
non-profit center based in Washington, D.C.
Tarr-Whelan is slated to speak at the opening session of the national
Summit on Women's Economic Security Wednesday at the Colorado Convention
Center.
The summit, hosted by the Women's Foundation of Colorado, will draw
national leaders to explore problems and solutions to women's economic
self-sufficiency. Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver the keynote address.
Colorado is expected to be in the spotlight for the summit because it
ranks in the top three states in the nation for women-owned businesses. Two
out of three new businesses in Colorado are started by women.
''There's a lot of curiosity about Colorado," said Letty Bass, executive
director of the Women's Foundation.
Tarr-Whelan said women across the nation are also watching Colorado's
family medical leave laws, which allow temporary disability insurance to be
used for pregnancies.
The summit is expected to talk about wages, which continues to be an
overriding issue. According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, in
1993 women's wages are still only 71.5 percent of men's wages.
In Colorado, where women make up 57 percent of the workforce, women make
70 percent of what men make. More than half of Colorado female heads of
eholds with children under 5 make incomes at the federal poverty level
890 for a family of three.
ass said the summit will examine ''the challenge of moving women into
m.
ng Iiving wages.''
A report from the summit will be sent to key policy-makers, organizations
and governments dealing with women's issues, Bass said. Also the report will
be forwarded to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing this September.
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September 28, 1994 Wednesday 1ST EDITION
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LENGTH: 505 words
HEADLINE: Report bemoans status of women
BYLINE: Judith Brimberg, Denver Post Staff Writer
BODY:
Of the 73 baby girls born in Colorado each day, 13 will experience living in
poverty before entering school, a majority will spend time in a single-parent
home and 62 will be sexually harassed while in school unless economic and
societal changes occur, a new study suggests.
"The Status of Women and Girls in Colorado" is based on 1990 U.S. census data
and studies by two state agencies as well as the American Association of
University Women. It seeks to encourage changes that will allow women to become
more financially secure, said Letty Bass of the Women's Foundation of Colorado.
The foundation and Girls Count prepared the study, released today.
If three things happen - if women finish high school, wait to have children
et work experience - "women are likely to be economically secure as adults
ess likely to live in poverty," Bass said.
But their educational environment, with its overtones of sexual harassment
and low academic expectations; other violent crimes directed at them; and the
disparity between the earnings of men and women all contribute to women's
lifetime of economic inequity, the report said.
"Somehow, girls still are being shortchanged by our society and by its formal
and informal means of preparing our young for adulthood, " said Judy Patrick,
director of Girls Count. "The answers to why our daughters become so discouraged
and lack math, science and technical skills are not simple and are buried in our
culture. Yet the time and place for intervention must be while the girls are
young and in school."
If the statistics contained in the report remain unchanged, a majority of the
state's women will become the sole supporters of their families at some point.
In addition, while the majority will live alone after age 65, only 18 will enter
retirement with a pension, the report said. Nationwide, retired women average
only 60 percent of the income of retired men.
Beginning in middle school and continuing through high school, girls suffer
from a slide in self-esteem and do less well than boys in math, science and
technology, the study said.
Colorado, girls in the class of 1994 scored an average of 48 points below
in math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
PAGE
6
The Denver Post, September 28, 1994 Wednesday
Yet fewer than one-quarter of Colorado's school districts have a plan to
luate themselves on whether they treat the sexes equally, the report said.
'Girls' self-esteem is further derailed when their school or home environment
is violent or unsafe," Patrick said.
"Our findings suggest attention is long overdue regarding the violent crimes
committed against girls Many of these girls become women who are entrenched
in a cycle of abuse, which tends to prohibit them from becoming
self-sufficient."
In Colorado, girls are sexually abused at five times the rate of boys, the
report said. As adults, up to one-third will be battered by a male partner if
the statistics remain unchanged.
"This incidence of violence and abuse is alarming, as are the long-term
repercussions, " Patrick said.
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The Denver Post
October 10, 1994 Monday 2D EDITION
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LENGTH: 658 words
HEADLINE: Foundation's impact growing
BYLINE: Joanne Davidson, Society
BODY:
Bigger isn't always better, unless you're talking about the Women's
Foundation of Colorado. The bigger it gets, the greater the impact it has on
giving lives. girls and women the boost they need to live more economically secure
Last week, before 1,500 guests attending breakfast and luncheon sessions at
the Marriott City Center, President Mary Ann Guillot announced that $ 112,000
was being awarded to 10 agencies that provide employment and training services
to women.
Recipients range from Colorado Women's Employment and Education (CWEE) and Mi
Casa Resource Center, both in Denver, to Resource Center Inc. in Grand Junction
a' the Rural Communities Resource Center in Yuma. Since its start in 1986, $
aillion has gone to 73 programs statewide.
hursday's mega-event also included a talk on positive parenting for girls by
author-educator Jane Vennard and presentation of the 1994 Dottie Lamm Award (a $
1,000 scholarship and a one-year term on the foundation's board of trustees) to
Kelly Brady, a junior at Greeley Central High School.
The weeks leading up to the big day were hectic for all involved, what with
programs to proofread, scripts to write, seating assignments to be made - and on
and on. Even so, quite a few of the committee members juggled other
responsibilities, as well.
Program chairwoman Karel Horney, for instance, had a key role in the Susan G.
Komen Foundation Race for the Cure (she organized the party to thank
patron-level supporters); publicity coordinator Margaret Cunningham and her
husband, Jim, moved into a new home and Toni Cohig from the ticket committee
co-chaired a benefit for SafeHouse, helped with a daughter's wedding and then
took skeet-shooting lessons with her former college roommate.
Event chairwoman Virginia Morrison Love traveled to Slovenia with her
husband, Andy, a colonel in the Colorado National Guard. Slovenia, she
explained, is interested in patterning its national guard after Colorado's. Just
before the Loves left for Eastern Europe, Virginia met with Swanee Hunt, a
H founder of the Women's Foundation who is now the U.S. ambassador to Austria.
had returned to Denver to speak at the Governor's Mansion about Women Will,
J planned-giving program being established by the foundation.
PAGE
4
The Denver Post, October 10, 1994 Monday
Guests had lots of good news to share, too. Nanette Fishman and Theresa
atrick reported that the 1994 edition of Girls Night Out is sold out. It's
20 at the Marriott City Center, stars Pam Stone from TV's "Coach" and
fits Girls Inc. Sue Anschutz Rodgers, there with Piton Foundation Director
Mary Gittings Cronin and Cille Williams, said she'd just learned that tomorrow's
Heart of Gold Ball, where she'll be honored by Food Bank of the Rockies, is at
capacity, too.
The foundation's president-elect, Betsy Considine, attended both the
breakfast and lunch, as did executive director Letty Bass. Kathy Lee lunched
with her Cherry Hills Village neighbors Adrienne Singleton and Kristin
Lohmiller; other familiar faces in the noontime crowd were Sherri Koelbel;
pediatrician Dean Prina; Sue Damour; Norwest Banks Chairman John Nelson; Channel
4's Reynelda Muse and McClain Finlon Advertising principal Cathey Finlon.
Also, former Junior League Presidents Marty Segelke, Katherine Fulford and
Helen Ruth Mozer; Connie Graham and Susan Barnes-Gelt from the University of
Colorado; Carol Canon; Lauren Casteel from the Hunt Alternatives Fund; Wendy
Clayton; special projects consultant Louise B. Connor; and Gordon Butz,
executive director of the Colorado Judicial Institute.
THIS AND THAT: Sports commentator Dick Vitale, whose sister, Terry, publishes
Colorado Expression magazine, will be here tomorrow to speak at a Regis Jesuit
High School dinner. It's at the Colorado Convention Center; for tickets, call
680-8586
Metro Mobility Auxiliary welcomes new members at a tea that begins
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Barry Hirschfeld residence. Call 292-6914.
:
COLUMN
LOAS-DATE: October 18, 1994
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
REMARKS OF THE FIRST LADY
BRIEFING AND RECEPTION FOR FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVES
ON PREPARING FOR THE
U.N. 4TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN
MARCH 13, 1995
Q: Ladies and gentlemen, the First Lady of the United
States, accompanied by Mrs. Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky.
MRS. CLINTON: Good afternoon. Thank you so much for
joining us here this afternoon. We are delighted by the turnout.
We had actually decided we were going == meet in 3 smaller room
and then we had to move to a Larger room because so many cf you
were able to come. And I am so glad that you are here because we
want to talk to you about our plans for the United States'
participation in the upcoming UN Fourth World Conference on Women
in Beijing and our hopes to include women across America in
discussion of the issues. And also we want to make sure that the
United Sates plays a leadership role, as it appropriately should,
both in the preparation for this summit and for the summit
itself.
We see the Women's Conference as really part of a continuum.
It is linked to other conferences and certainly other activities
both in the private sector, as well as the public, that have
tried to move forward an agenda for women's advancement. It
builds on conferences such as the UN Conference on Social
Development where we were last week in Copenhagen. And I was
pleased that the United States was able to announce a new USAID
grant to promote girls education in Latin America, Africa, and
Asia.
And I want to thank Tim Wirth and the delegation that served
in Copenhagen -- I see Madeline Kunin who was there as well --
because they really did represent our hopes that aid would not
only be continued and that the United States would continue to do
its part, but that the roles of NGO's would be enhanced and that
the kind of work that many of you have done over the decades
would be given more attention and support to ensure that
development, and particularly development for women, was
advanced.
I want to thank those of you in the Foundation community for
your commitment to programs of importance to women. I have been
a longtime member of organizations that received funds from
foundations. I've served on foundation boards and I know first
hand the important role that many of you have played on your own
and in partnership with governments around the world.
This is an important year for all women because of the
International Women's conference, but especially important for
American women. Seventy-five years ago we won the right to vote.
Something that I hope will be adequately celebrated this year so
women and girls today will better understand the achievement that
others secured for them. Fifty years ago the Women's Bureau at
the Department of Labor was established and we are looking
forward to marking that celebration with programs this year that
particularly highlight the needs of working women. And I hope
that we will be able to continue to make sure that a lot of the
gains that women have been able to mark in the United States will
be preserved. With all of this in mind, both in terms of our
world role and our domestic one, we want the Women's conference,
from Sept. 4th to the 15th, to be a vehicle that really does help
us to promote and advance a progressive agenda on behalf of
women.
The issues to be addressed in Beijing are issues that women
live with, talk about, worry over; and that they should be more
active participants in helping their societies and their families
address. I had the occasion just a few weeks ago to be visiting
with some journalists and I was talking to them about my upconing
trip to India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and
they asked me what I was going to be doing. And I said I was
particularly interested in visiting programs for women and
particularly ones in which women themselves played leadership
roles. And I went on to talk about some of the development
programs I was going to be seeing, including some of the credit
programs that many of you are familiar with and have helped to
fund -- whether it's SEWA in India or the Grameen Bank and its
offshoots in Bangladesh. And I went on to say that many people
around the world have discovered that extending credit to very
poor women is a very good investment. And you know once again
their eyes rolled and they said, "There she goes again," and I
said, "No it's true, the facts speak for themselves." Women
invest in themselves and their families and in the future. And
that is something that at least the group to which I was speaking
had no knowledge. They had never been exposed to the development
work that many of you have suppported, that our government has
helped to assist -- did not know even that this President has
promoted the concept of community development banks here at home
that we hope will have the same impact.
So there is a synergy here -- to use a much used term --
that I hope we can bring home some of the development work as a
way of demonstrating to Americans and the broader American public
what can be accomplished. Because we've made a lot of progress
in seeing that different approaches toward assisting women, and
particularly women in poverty, can work if they are given the
kinds of resources they need.
Much of the debate about welfare reform in our country would
be better informed if people knew more about what we were already
doing in this country and what we were doing abroad. So I think
that there is a great public education opportunity here that
should be advanced.
Our overall priority at the Women's Conference and at the
global preparatory meeting in New York which starts later this
week, is to build on the commitments made at previous important
UN conferences such as Nairobi and Rio and Cairo and now
Copenhagen to guard against any backsliding, which is always a
possibility, and to try to advance the agenda. On the most
urgent goals for the United States we have to be sure that the
conference reaffirms human rights for women. We will focus on
two interrelated objectives -- preventing violence against women
and legal literacy programs. We will also work toward a life
cycle approach to health and education and focus on health
concerns specific to women. This includes, of course,
reproductive health, but we want the agenda to be broader than
that. We want the agenda to start locking at the other health
challenges women face, both as women and as mothers. Because we
think that there are some very important health care issues that
we need to address. Issues pertaining to cancer and its
prevalence in certain populations and other illnesses
predominately affecting women.
We also want to drive home the point that the most
transforming investment we can make is in universal primary and
secondary education, especially for girls. I remember in the
work I did in education in Arkansas, and that I was privileged to
work with many of you and the groups that you funded around the
country, over and over again we came back down to noticing that
one of the most important criterion to the academic achievements
a child would make is the level of education the child's mother
had received -- not the father -- but the mother. And I think
that we have to continue to stress access to education
opportunities.
As we talk to American women about this conference, we want
to be listening as well. We had a remarkable report that was
issued in 1994 called "Working Women Count." The Women's Bureau
at the US Department of Labor, again with the help of some of you
in this room, surveyed women and then analyzed over 250,000
responses from working women about the challenges and obstacles
that they face in the workplace and in balancing families and
work.
We learned a lot from that. We want to continue to listen
as we try to understand how women can be helped to balance work
and family and the opportunities they have available to them if
they take advantage of those opportunities. We will, on behalf
of the United States, promote women's equality with men in the
governmental, political, and economic decision making structures
of society. We will also highlight and try to involve as many
NGO's as possible. We believe strongly in participation by NGO's
in all United Nation's activities. When I was in Copenhagen I
stressed the role of NGO'S, paid a visit to the Women's Caucus,
and made clear that the United States would continue to press not
only the United Nations but also any host country, such as China,
about ensuring that the broad range of NGO's who wished to be
able to attend, would be able to.
We will also make sure that young women are addressed. I
walked into the Women's Caucus and there were a lot of familiar
faces. (I kidded Bella Abzug who was chairing that I knew she
was a rather remarkable person but I did not know that she had
the power to have the Danes name a conference center -- the Bella
Center -- before I actually got there.) The leadership of women
who have been in the forefront of the struggle for women's rights
and women's equality is something that is very important, but we
need to bring in new women and younger women to serve as
advocates. And we will be looking to make sure that we will be
adequately addressing and understanding the special needs of
women as they confront their OWN life circumstances.
Many of you in the foundation community have played critical
roles in advancing a progressive women's agenda here in the
United States and around the world for many many years. You're
going to be looking, I know, how to translate rhetoric into
action. And we want your help in creating an action plan that
will take whatever the rhetorical goals are, whatever the
concerns are of the people in this country and begin to put them
into some kind of strategy for implementation.
We are putting together a strong leadership team to head our
delegation to the Women's Conference. I am delighted to serve as
the honorary chair. Ambassador Madeleine Albright will lead the
delegation. Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky will be the deputy
chair and the director of the delegation and I think we are very
fortunate to have Marjorie doing that job. Veronica Biggins, who
is here today, is a vice-chair and will be in a leadership
position. Lynn Cutler and Arthenia Joyner and Dottie Lamm have
been serving as permanent public members and have in that
capacity traveled around the world to the regional preparatory
meetings and we are grateful to them. They will be joined for
this final preparatory meeting by Linda Tarr-Whelan and Maria
Berriosabal.
We have selected some very good government representatives
and are grateful that a number of experts from the private sector
have agreed to join our New York delegation this week and next.
And we are pleased to have many of them with us and I hope that
when we break that you will have a chance to meet them.
Ambassador Albright could not be with us this afternoon but
I am pleased to introduce to those of you who do not know her
Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, who has taken on the task of being
the full time director of the delegation of this conference.
Marjorie, for those of you who may know her in her public
capacity, was a very courageous and effective congresswomen, took
a number of stands on behalf of economic opportunity and
budgetary sensibility. She is also a person who in her own life
has lived many of the roles that we're going to be exploring in
the next month leading up to Beijing. She is the mother, not
only of children from other countries she adopted as a single
mother from other countries, but as the mother of her own
children from her husband Ed Mezvinsky and as the mother with Ed
of more adopted children. I kidded Marjorie and said she looked
like she was the Beijing conference in her household. This is a
woman, to give you some idea of her enormous courage, capacity,
and just confidence, who in the midst of her campaign for
Congress had her house burned down, so with a rather enormous and
varied family moved into extremely tight quarters and continued
to campaign and keep her family together.
he wanted to give everybody a chance to come and say hello
== Marjorie and ne and there are a number of women in the
Administration here that I'd like to stand SC that = can
introduce them to the rest of you. I see Carcl Bellamy who is in
the back there. Many cf you know Carol is the Director of the
Peace Corps.
Melanne Verveer who is on the end there is my Deputy Chief
of Staff and the woman who keeps track of a lot of these issues
that I'm concerned about. I see Laura Tyson who is the very able
former head of the Council of Economic Advisors and now the head
of the National Economic Council. Carol Lancaster who is the
Deputy Director of USAID and has done a terrific job in promoting
a lot of these women's issues. Karen Nussbaum, who is the very
able director of our Women's Bureau.
We've got many people from the Administration here doing the
good work that needs to be done, and I want each one of you to
meet each one of them. And if you have any questions, ask, and
we'll start to work on them. call us, call Marjorie, she's there
now. Call other people in the Administration, whatever, just so
that we can be sure to know what your concerns are.
We cannot do this right if we don't have the kind of support
from the foundation community that frankly was essential to our
success in Cairo. We never could have done what we did in Cairo,
we would not be prepared to maintain our achievements in Cairo,
if it hadn't been for extensive in-depth work on behalf of
foundations, working with NGO's, working with the delegation and
other parts of the government. so, to help us make some good
things happen for women here and women around the world, we
really need your help. So thank you all for coming and please
join us. (Applause)
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HEADLINE: Howdy, Hillary
Denver businesswomen likely to extend warm western welcome
BYLINE: Mary Winter; Rocky Mountain News Lifestyles Editor
BODY:
Polls may rank Hillary Rodham Clinton among America's least popular public figures, but when she
arrives in Denver today, she'll be among friends.
She'll be surrounded by women who admire and even idolize her.
Colorado's Swanee Hunt, U.S. ambassador to Austria, calls Clinton "an inspiration and role model for
me."
Wilma J. Webb, wife of Mayor Wellington Webb, lauds Clinton for her "integrity, courage, intelligence,
perseverance, poise and loyalty."
And Rep. Pat Schroeder, Colorado's 11-term congresswoman, compares Clinton to Eleanor Roosevelt.
"She'll go down in history as a great first lady."
More than 3,000 women will welcome Clinton to the Colorado Convention Center shortly after noon
today, when she is scheduled to address the 1995 Summit on Women's Economic Security, sponsored
by the Colorado Women's Foundation.
On her way to the convention center, Clinton will visit Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, home of
one of the nation's most successful start-up business programs for low-income, minority women.
At the conference, Clinton will join 28 other leading lights from govenment, academia and business,
including the first woman to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. They will address everything
from balancing work and career to retirement planning to differences in men's and women's leadership
styles.
Clinton - lawyer, wife, mother, author, children's activist and occasional dabbler in stocks (she once
parlayed a $ 1,000 investment in cattle futures into $ 100,000 in a year) - will be among peers.
But that collegiality is likely to evaporate once Air Force One whisks her out of Colorado.
Ever since her failed attempt to sell America on her proposed health-care reforms last year, Clinton has
been a favorite target of political conservatives.
She is often blamed for the Democrats' drubbing at the polls in November.
Before then, conservative talk-show hosts, writers, politicians and their mothers vilified Clinton,
labeling her everything from a "feminazi" to a Marxist to an unscrupulous businesswoman and lawyer.
And bitch.
The public hasn't exactly rallied to her defense. A Times-Mirror poll of public-figures' popularity last
year ranked her near the bottom. Some speculate Clinton's Ivy League credentials and confidence make
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Americans uncomfortable. Some say Americans prefer a lower-profile first lady, a Barbara Bush or a
Nancy Reagan, a woman who does not change her hairdo so frequently, a woman more reminiscent of
Mom.
But if Clinton is a square peg, she has suffered her setbacks stoicly. She's largely stayed out of the public
eye, other than taking a well- publicized trip to India and Pakistan with her daughter Chelsea this spring,
and backing a campaign urging women to undergo mammographies.
Her public profile may rise somewhat with her weekly column, which debuted Sunday in about 100
newspapers. In the column, Clinton is expected to address family and child-care issues.
In her first column, she described the constraints of life in the public eye. She admitted she drove a car
recently, an activity her Secret Service guards frown upon.
But the risk was worth it. "For several hours, I enjoyed a marvelous sensation of personal freedom," she
wrote of her excursion in Little Rock.
INFOBOX (1)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born: Oct. 26, 1947, Chicago Grew up: Park Ridge, Ill. Family: Father, owned drapery business.
Mother, homemaker. Two younger brothers. Earliest career aspiration: Astronaut. Childhood: Methodist
youth group, Girl Scouts. High school: Debate; drama; National Merit Scholar; "Most likely to succeed.
" Undergraduate degree: Wellesley College, 1969; senior class president. Volunteer work: Children's
Defense Fund, 1970. Law degree: Yale, 1973. First law job: Legal team investigating Watergate for
House Judiciary Subcommittee, 1973. Married Bill Clinton: Oct. 11, 1975. Joined Rose law firm: 1977.
Became Arkansas First Lady: 1978. Expanded legal career; became staff lawyer for Children's Defense
Fund; named to board of Wal-Mart, TCBY Enterprises, Lafarge; named chairman of American Bar
Association Committee on Women in the Profession. Became a mother: 1980. Approximate annual
salary in '80s: 200,000 'Sixty Minutes' appearance: Jan. 26, 1992. Defends husband against charges of
adultery. Becomes First Lady: Nov. 3, 1992. Philosophy: "Do all the good you can, by all the means you
can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."
John Wesley, founder, Methodist Church. Source: Hillary Ropdham Clinton: Activist First Lady, by
T.J. Stacey
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HILLARY ON FAMILY ISSUES
On June 13, Hillary Rodham Clinton invited 30 journalists to the White House for a wide-ranging
discussion about family issues. Some highlights:
* Clinton complained about the "false debate" that has made government "the target of everything that is
wrong with families
Clearly there is more than enough accountability to go around."
* She said working parents who had inadequate child care faced a "terrible Hobson's choice
I have
seen places where people are forced to leave their babies where I wouldn't leave my cat," she said.
*
Most women on welfare are good, loving mothers, but also "overwhelmed and resentful, and not sure
how to get out." She called for time limits on welfare payments, and proposed that if there were not
enough jobs to go around in the private sector, "I think we ought to put (welfare mothers) to work in the
public sector - not for pay, necessarily."
*
"In the current political climate, it's every family for themselves," she said. "It's 'push those mothers
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into the work force, get them off welfare' as quickly as possible. "I think we pay a very big price."
* Use of public facilities is inefficient and illogical, she said. "Let's privatize child care, but do it in the
school buildings."
* Society undervalues fathers, she said. She urged participants to do "anything you can do to promote the
idea of fatherhood as a great adventure."
* The wanderlust of men predates the Bible. "How do you keep fathers from going out in search of
whales, going out West, I don't know, joining the Crusades? I mean, this is not a new problem."
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, shown speaking to State Department summer interns earlier this month,
Press. arrives in Denver today to address the 1995 Summit on Women's Economic Security. By Associated
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July 26, 1995, Wednesday
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HEADLINE: Women's economic summit begins today
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The 1985 Summit on Women's Economic Security gets under way at 8 a.m. today at the Colorado
Convention Center in downtown Denver.
In addition to keynote speaker Hillary Rodham Clinton, 28 female leaders in the fields of business,
banking, academia and government will lead seminars until 4 p.m.
Topics include how to interest teen-age girls in entrepreneurship; how women's leadership styles differ
from men's; how technology in the workplace can help women; women's savings and retirement
planning; and balancing work and family.
More than 3,300 participants have registered for the conference, sponsored by the Women's Foundation
of Colorado. The luncheon is filled. To check on seating availability for the seminars, which cost $ 25 to
attend, call 832- 3388. Speakers and seminar leaders include University of Colorado President Judith
Albino; Muriel Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange; Toby
Burroughs of Dean Witter; Nancy McCallin, chief economist for the Colorado Legislative Council;
Lauren Casteel, president of the Hunt Alternatives Fund; and Raydean Acevedo, president and CEO of
Research Management Consultants.
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July 27, 1995 Thursday 2D EDITION
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HEADLINE: Teen girls taught business savvy Early start critical to economic security
BYLINE: Penny Parker, Denver Post Business Writer
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Author and entrepreneur Joline Godfrey says her female peers remember playing the Barbie Game
when they were teenagers.
The goal of the game was to get to the prom with Ken as your date.
But thanks to Godfrey, today's teenage women can shoot for business savvy and economic proficiency
by playing the Godfrey-designed board game "An Income of Her Own."
Roughly 150 of Colorado's young women played the game yesterday during the 1995 Summit on
Women's Economic Security at the Colorado Convention Center. The summit attracted 3,100 people
who attended a daylong series of sessions on women and economics, and jammed the convention center
to hear First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech during lunch.
One baby boomer observed, while the teenagers played the game, "If I had known what these young
women are learning, instead of going to the prom with Ken, I would have hired him."
Godfrey, founder of the nonprofit corporation that's also called An Income of Her Own and author of
two books, said that her mission is "to help the 13 million teenage women in this country gain economic
empowerment and economic literacy."
An Income of Her Own was born out of a meeting between 10 women business owners determined to
teach young women about entrepreneurship and economics. "Most women don't think about business
ownership until their mid 30s, 40s, 50s or 60s," Godfrey said. "That's too late."
Half of the 25 teenagers who attended an entrepreneurial camp last summer have started their own
businesses, Godfrey said. "All girls across class, race and culture are at economic risk," Godfrey said. "I
still go to private schools and ask the teen women how they are going to support themselves. Many still
say, 'Marry a rich man.' It makes your blood curdle."
"More Frogs to Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls," Godfrey's second book, debuted in
Denver bookstores yesterday.
Here is some advice for young women from the book:
Run an economic film festival. Show films such as "Working Girl," "Baby Boom," and "Disclosure,"
and invite six teens to talk about what they learn from the films.
Honor women's economic history. Many women in the Wild West owned saloons and boarding houses.
Teach defensive economics. Make sure young women know how to talk to garage mechanics.
Shop till you drop. Give six teenagers in a mall shopping assignments and let them talk about what they
learn.
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Review money messages. Instead of saying, "Money doesn't grow on trees," think of a way to describe
earning a salary or meeting a payroll.
"Passing economic power onto the next generation is a piece of cake," Godfrey said, "but unless we do
that, we're failing at our responsibility as adult women."
GRAPHIC: PHOTO: The Denver Post/Helen H. Davis ENTREPRENEUR: Joline Godfrey addresses
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HEADLINE: First lady rallies women to earn security
BYLINE: Penny Parker and Fred Brown, Denver Post Staff Writers
BODY:
During a stop in Denver yesterday, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton challenged employers to create
a working environment that will more readily allow women to achieve economic security.
The first lady spoke about women and economics during the "1995 Summit on Women's Economic
Security," hosted by The Women's Foundation of Colorado.
Clinton. A crowd of 3,100 people crammed into the Colorado Convention Center to hear a luncheon address by
"There are few issues more important than economic security," she told a crowd that included Gov. Roy
Romer, Denver first lady Wilma Webb and former Colorado first lady Dottie Lamm. "If we provide
economic security for women, that will ensure the strength of families.
"Women at all ages of their lives should be respected for what we can bring to the world of work,"
Clinton said. "That means we have to be respectful of the choices they make."
The first lady said she's "tired of women being pitted against each other" when they choose between the
options of being full-time moms, career-driven women who choose to have no children, or those who
choose to juggle working outside the home and raising children.
"We need to stop pointing fingers and start holding out helping hands so every choice can be supported."
Clinton called on government and private business to become partners in "affirmative thinking," to
create policies that will do more to support parents in the work place.
"It's not easy for two working parents to make the choice for one - usually the woman - to take time off
for children. We should do more to support women and men who make that choice. (Businesses) need a
leave program and flexible time," she said.
Denver philanthropist Swanee Hunt, who campaigned hard for President Clinton's election and was later
appointed U.S. ambassador to Austria, was instrumental in snagging the first lady for the Denver
conference. The Women's Foundation will compile a report on the findings of the day-long summit for
U.S. policymakers, organizations involved in women's issues and the U.S. delegation to the 1995 United
Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing Sept. 4-15.
It has not been determined whether Mrs. Clinton will attend the conference. The decision hangs on
political relations between China and the United States at that time.
Wilma Webb was among the Colorado contingent that greeted Clinton upon her arrival yesterday.
Mayor Wellington Webb was flying to Washington to meet with President Clinton about the national
budget and the needs of America's cities.
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The Webbs visited the White House two weeks ago.
"I'm very glad that Hillary is here at the summit," Wilma Webb said. "Denver is an excellent city to read
the barometer of where the future lies for the country.
"I think she has a tremendous grasp on economic security for women and families - and for all of us.
The issues associated with women have to be integrated into the whole society. We must all roll up our
sleeves and get busy," Webb said.
Outside the Convention Center, as Clinton was speaking, a few protesters carried signs and shouted,
"Abortion is murder," "Thou shalt not kill," and "The day of judgment is coming." The Clintons are
pro-choice. No one during her visit brought up the subject of the Whitewater hearings.
Earlier in the day, Clinton also visited the Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, where she visited a
class in which women learn how to support each other in starting businesses.
The more they succeed, she reminded them, the more they provide opportunities for others to succeed.
"I hope that when the inevitable disappointments and barriers continue to spring up, that the strategies -
which is what this class and this program is designed to give you - will enable you to get around those
and not to get broken by them," she said.
To avoid the isolation, try pooling services, she suggested. Each company can buy a piece of those
services and "limit the mistakes we all make."
Annette and Victoria Quintana agreed with that suggestion. "We've gone through our share of
accountants," said Annette Quintana. The sisters, with Mi Casa's guidance, used a small retirement fund
business. to start a computer consulting firm, Excel Professional Services, that has grown into a $ 12 million
Mrs. Clinton praised the Mi Casa program, which started in 1976 as a way to help Hispanic women,
primarily, get on their feet. "This is the kind of program that makes a very strong case of why we need
to continue to invest in people."
Clinton said would-be entrepreneurs need support, encouragement, and education to create wealth and
jobs. "If we tell people they're on their own, we're going to have more failure, we're going to have even
more social problems."
Women are creating new businesses at a faster clip than men are, Mrs. Clinton said, but more banks
need to be encouraged to make the $ 2,000 to $ 5,000 loans that get businesses off the ground, she said.
Cec Ortiz, director of the Colorado Women's Business Office, said established systems are slow to
change. "There was a woman in Grand Junction, and she said, 'How many dreams have died in the
parking lots of banks?" Ortiz said.
Businesswoman Jennifer Croft said another problem is the complexity of taxes and regulations.
said. "I pay 10 kinds of taxes right now, which I don't even mind. It's just that they're so complicated," Croft
Mrs. Clinton agreed that government needs to be simplified, and said the administration is working to
eliminate some of the red tape. "It's taken a long time to find all the regulations that have accumulated
over the past 50 years," she said.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO: The Denver Post/Karl Gehring HELLO: Hillary Clinton, on a Denver visit,
introduces herself to Christie Torres during a stop at the Mi Casa Resource Center. At left is Agnes
Talamantez, director of Project Success, one of the Mi Casa programs.
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July 27, 1995, Thursday
SECTION: BUSINESS; Ed. F; Pg. 53A
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HEADLINE: Women discovering that economics is a game they too can play
BYLINE: Mary Winter
BODY:
The inspiring old tale of Horatio Alger lost some of its magic at Wednesday's 1995 Summit on
Women's Economic Security.
Alger's experience - work hard and you can make $ 1 million - is a fairy tale for more than half the
American population.
A woman - whether a lawyer or stay-at-home wife can work till she drops from exhaustion. And for
what? Her dedication will likely have little bearing on how financially secure she'll be at 65, or how well
the corporation will reward her at retirement.
The perks, the bonuses, the promotions, have been largely reserved for men.
Some telling statistics:
* 11,455 men, compared to 174 women, have served in Congress
* Women win just 0.6% of government contracts over $ 25,000
* Women earn 70CENTS to a man's $ 1
* Women's average income is $ 21,000; men's is $ 41,000
* Over a lifetime, a man will make $ 400,000 more than a woman
* Two-thirds of all miminum-wage workers are women
But that's the depressing news. The exciting news, as speaker after speaker pointed out at the summit, is
that the world is changing.
In the United States, women are opening new businesses at twice the rate of men. Female-owned
businesses employ more people than the Fortune 500 companies combined. At many colleges, more
women than men are earning degrees.
Increasingly, women's skills are in demand.
The very characteristics that made society perceive women as weak - their tendency to share
information, to collaborate on decision making, and yes, to gossip - will work to their advantage in the
new global economy.
As futurist Patricia Aburdene pointed out, the American workforce is increasingly educated and skilled.
As we move further into the Information Age, leaving factories behind, workers want to be heard. They
dislike orders and authoritarian, military-style management, the leadership style of many American
corporations.
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Enter female CEOs.
Their management style is based on supporting, inspiring, bringing out the best in people. Decisions are
likely to be made at a round table, where employees have input. Think of quilting bees and baby
showers. It's a long tradition. Women are also starting to appreciate the potential of their tremendous
buying power.
American working women gave the retail clothing industry a wake-up call in the early 90s. Clothing
sales dropped sharply, and women started shopping catalogs. The reason? Male dress designers didn't
get the fact that women want practical, affordable clothing that looks good on women older that 20 and
heavier than 95 pounds.
With 40 million to 50 million women entering menopause in the next two decades, Aburdene warned
the health-care industry not to make the same mistake by ignoring a huge market.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton advanced the concept a step further. We must draw inspiration from
women in countries such as Bangladesh and India, where a woman who procures a $ 50 loan to buy a
milk cow can bring her family a whole new standard of living.
We must encourage programs such as Denver's Mi Casa, where women who overcome impoverished
backgrounds remind us of how much we all can accomplish.
Finally, we must quit pitting career women against stay-at-home women who raise families. One
profession is as worthy as the other, said Clinton. "We must hold out helping hands so that every choice
can be supported."
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HEADLINE: First lady might go to conference in China
Hillary Clinton tells Denver audience that boycott of women's meeting makes
no sense
BYLINE: Katie Kerwin; Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
BODY:
Hillary Rodham Clinton hinted during a speech in Denver that she will attend the United Nations
conference on women in China in September.
Protesters have urged her to boycott the conference because of China's poor human rights record. While
their intentions may be proper, they are "missing the point," Clinton told 3,000 delegates to the national
Summit on Women's Economic Security.
"Human rights cannot be separated from women's rights," Clinton said, as the crowd of supporters
applauded. "Women's rights to economic opportunities and political participation should be a part of the
human rights agenda."
Clinton said the United States must exert strong leadership at the conference, although she did not say
specifically that she would attend. A spokesman for Clinton said the State Department and National
Security Council, not Clinton herself, will decide next month whether she'll go.
The first lady made the comments about China during a luncheon at the Colorado Convention Center,
where she pressed for women's rights, parity in the workplace, improved health care, a family-friendly
government and an end to age discrimination.
Earlier Wednesday, Clinton visited Mi Casa, a Denver training and counseling center that works to make
women economically self-sufficient.
She sat in on a class where young single parents were learning about setting up businesses. She also
participated in a roundtable discussion with female entrepreneurs who had established businesses with
Mi Casa's help.
Clinton seized both forums to deliver an explicitly political message. At the luncheon, she discussed
affirmative action, saying women and minorities not only need affirmative action, but "affirmative
thinking" as well.
Clinton also defended mothers on welfare, maligned in Washington since Republicans gained control of
Congress. She said the government and private groups, like the Women's Foundation of Colorado
which sponsored Wednesday's summit, must work together to help women rise from poverty.
Clinton even brought up health care, a topic she has avoided discussing publicly since the Clinton
administration's health-care plan flopped last year.
"We have to view health care as an investment in people that enables them to achieve economic
security," Clinton said.
She did not answer any questions. And she made no remarks about the Whitewater hearings or the death
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her chief of staff to learn whether the aide had taken documents from Foster's office the night he died.
Clinton appeared unruffled by the hearing, focusing on potential benefits from the Denver summit.
"If you are able to provide economic security for women," she said, "you are more likely to ensure that
families and communities are also economically secure. That is something that we have learned all over
the world."
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, listens to Ambassador Swanee Hunt at the head table before she
addressed the women's economic summit at the Colorado Convention Center on Wednesday. President
Clinton appointed Hunt, of Denver, ambassador to Austria. By Linda McConnell / Rocky Mountain
News.
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HEADLINE: Women called key to U.S. economy
leaders Summit shows importance of females in the workforce, as entrepreneurs, and
BYLINE: Jane Hoback; Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer; Rocky Mountain News Lifestyles editor
Mary Winter ; and staff writer Anna Maria Basquez contributed to this story.
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For the United States to stay competitive, the country must treat half its workforce - women - as if
they mattered.
That was the theme Wednesday of the 1995 Summit on Women's Economic Security at the Colorado
Convention Center, which attracted more than 3,100 people from across the country.
They gathered to hear Hillary Rodham Clinton deliver a keynote address and two dozen top
representatives from business, government and non-profit organizations outline their strategies and
solutions to make sure women get their rightful place in the economy.
"In the global economy, America's competitive edge is the knowledge and skills of every worker, not
remarks. half the workforce," said Linda Tarr-Whelan, president of the Center for Policy Alternatives, in opening
The summit, sponsored by the Women's Foundation of Colorado, was a precursor to the United Nations
Fourth World Conference on Women scheduled for September in Beijing, China.
Results of the summit, compiled from comments by participants in panel discussions and computer
U.S. surveys Wednesday, will be sent with delegates to the conference as well as to key policy-makers in the
Foundation director Letty Bass expects to release a final report in late September. "We'll be getting
direct feedback on what works for women," she said.
The same themes resounded: Women want equal pay, flexible hours, health care, child care, ways to
help balance family and work, lifelong educational opportunities. When they launch businesses, as more
are doing all the time, they want better access to capital and support organizations. They don't want their
daughters to encounter the same obstacles. And they want recognition for doing business differently.
"As a manager of people, I was hoping to get more of the current thinking perspective that helps to get
people to where they need to be in the business world - like how they can be more productive, positive
and focused," said Sidney Russell, manager of Colorado National Bank. "As women, we are different in
our leadership approach."
Many statistics were repeated time and again:
* Women account for 46% of the total U.S. labor force and are expected to comprise 48% by 2005.
* In 1993, women made 71.5CENTS for every dollar earned by men.
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* Women are creating new businesses at twice the rate of men. There are 8 million female business
owners who contribute $ 1 trillion in gross receipts to the economy.
* Two-thirds of all female business owners have trouble getting business loans and 52% of them use
credit cards for capital.
Business owner Mary Carter Miller, 41, of Denver, wanted to pick up some practical advice. "Some of
my male employees just won't listen to me," said Miller, owner of Creative Glass Etching, which she
founded in 1979.
"I pay them $ 15 an hour and they want to tell me how to do it," she said.
Betsy Myers, director of Women's Issues and Outreach at the White House and a former entrepreneur
herself, told a standing-room-only session that female business owners have a "huge problem with
access to capital."
Many women finance their start-ups with credit cards and she found that the average credit card debt
was $ 10,000. "I had $ 20,000 in credit card debt," Myers said.
Myers also urged women to form networks and to "give each other business. If we don't, who will?"
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Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, left, director of the U.S. Delegation to the Fourth World Conference on
Women, speaks at the 1995 Summit on Women's Economic Security Wednesday in Denver as Linda
Taylor, president of the Center for Policy Alternatives, listens. By Linda McConnell / Rocky Mountain
News.
Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter, center, joins hundreds of women on the escalators and stairs at the
Colorado Convention Center Wednesday, where Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed a luncheon. By
Ellen Jaskol / Rocky Mountain News.
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HEADLINE: First lady finds hope at Denver's Mi Casa center
Hillary Clinton hears from women who are learning, succeeding
BYLINE: Katie Kerwin; Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
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Hillary Rodham Clinton gave Denver's Mi Casa resource center for women a huge boost Wednesday.
The first lady bubbled with enthusiasm after spending an hour at the center. She sat in on a class with
single parents on welfare. The students told of their dreams to provide a world without welfare for their
children. And they commiserated about naysayers who insist they'll never succeed.
Asked by the teacher if people ever told her she couldn't succeed, Clinton nodded, then said, "They still
do, but I don't listen to them."
Clinton led a panel discussion with a group of women who started successful businesses with the help of
Mi Casa and government programs that aid woman, minorities and small businesses owners. She heard
from Victoria and Annette Quintana, sisters who graduated from a Mi Casa program five years ago and
set up Excel Professional Services Inc., a Denver area computer business that is now generating $ 12
million in annual sales and employs 125 people.
The first lady saluted Mi Casa for linking women in circles of support. Programs that help women get
off welfare and succeed in business should be replicated around the world, Clinton said.
"Part of the reason that I'm excited about the upcoming women's conference sponsored by the United
Nations (in China in September) is because one of the primary emphases will be on economic security,"
Clinton said. "We can come from our country and share success stories like the Mi Casa Resource
Center."
Clinton said there are many similarities between the Denver center and programs in Bangladesh that
give women small loans to make purchases as small as a single cow.
"It may be a milk cow in Bangladesh and it may be a computer or desktop publishing in Denver,"
Clinton said. "But each is a means to enable a woman to pursue her own hopes and dreams."
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July 28, 1995 Friday 2D EDITION
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HEADLINE: A Republican's role in getting Hillary Clinton to Denver
BYLINE: Fred Brown, POLITICS
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Betsy Considine may be the wife of conservative Republican Terry Considine and the daughter of
former state GOP chairman Bo Callaway, but she was instrumental in bringing Hillary Rodham Clinton
to Denver on Wednesday.
Nonpartisanship, said Considine, is "one of the founding principles" of The Women's Foundation, of
which she is president. The foundation sponsored the 1995 Summit on Women's Economic Security, at
which Mrs. Clinton gave the keynote address at lunch.
Getting Clinton to Denver was a nonpartisan scramble, all falling into place since the end of March.
It began when Clinton invited foundation leaders to the White House to raise awareness of the U.N.
women's conference in Beijing in September.
As honorary head of the U.S. delegation, she wanted to talk with women around the country to find out
what they were thinking.
The delegation of three women from Denver saw that a visit here was a possibility. And Mrs. Clinton's
staff was interested.
But the Beijing meeting had become highly politicized and controversial. Conservatives don't like China
and are uncomfortable with women's issues, especially if one of those issues is abortion. Liberals are
unhappy because China shows no signs of improving its human rights record.
So it took another month for the 42 board members of The Women's Foundation to decide they could
do it, both politically and logistically.
"The question was whether to accept an invitation that we knew was outside our purpose," Betsy
Considine said. But then, "we are really not talking about Beijing; we are talking about economic
security for women. We were able to be helpful to them (the White House), and yet we stayed really
true to our mission."
They worked out a time for Clinton to appear, moving up their usual autumnal fund-raising luncheon to
the heat of July. But it left them with less than three months to line up sponsors, confirm a whole day's
worth of diverse speakers and prepare for a crowd that turned out at more than 3,000.
"The staff and the volunteers were unbelievable," Considine said. "I thought the whole day went
swimmingly."
Particularly impressive, she said, was that by the afternoon, attendees were participating in the
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About the only glitch was that the caterers didn't get to all the tables at lunchtime. Among the diners
who didn't dine were Wilma Webb, the mayor's wife, and Beth Callaway, the mother of the foundation
president.
But at least everyone got food for thought.
Observers noted, though, that Considine didn't applaud at absolutely everything that Clinton said.
GOV. ROY ROMER, the roamer, was the beneficiary last Sunday of a $ 5,000-a-plate dinner in
Washington attended by about a dozen big-spending Democrats.
His press office in Denver confirmed it, saying the purpose was "to retire remaining bills from the
(1994) campaign and to raise money for anticipated travel expenses in connection with the upcoming
election cycle."
Let's see, that would be the 1996 election cycle. Since Romer can't run again for governor in 1998,
would that mean he might have to do some traveling in connection with a U.S. Senate bid?
Perish the thought. "He's always used his own money for NGA (National Governors' Association) and
DGA (Democratic ditto) travel," said Connie Sanders, his 1994 finance director.
Sanders, who now is in a similar regional finance role with the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, said
Romer had a campaign debt of close to $ 250,000 at the end of the campaign. He retired about half of it
in January and, of course, a lot more last Sunday.
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8/5/95
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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, AUGUST 5-6, 1995
Every place I have ever worked, a strange thing happens at 3:00 in the
afternoon. Women start grabbing for the phones.
It's the "anxious mom" phenomenon mothers calling home to make sure their
children have arrived safely from school.
I know because I've done it hundreds of times myself. And, like any working
mother, I can tell you about the times I have had to leave at midday or miss work
altogether because of a family emergency.
Once, as a young lawyer, I had to be in court at 9 a.m. for a big trial. My husband
was out of town. My daughter was sick. And I was in a panic.
I managed in situations like that but only because I had extraordinary support:
baby sitters, a mother-in-law nearby, a mother who visited regularly and a husband
who was eager to help.
Most working women are not so lucky.
With American families as overworked and as mobile as they are today, relying
on relatives and friends for child care is not always an option. Most workplaces do not
provide or subsidize child care. Day-care centers don't take sick kids, and most charge
high fees for late pickups.
And too often, employers penalize rather than help women who need to adjust
their schedules to attend to pressing family obligations.
As a 42-year-old auto-factory worker and mother of two said to me recently:
"What do you do with your kids when you are assigned the 4 p.m. to midnight shift?"
Whether they are federal judges or fast-food cooks, working women everywhere
are not getting enough support as they struggle to meet the competing demands of
family, work and career.
1 know this from my own experience, as well as from conversations with my
friends. But you don't have to take my word for it. Just ask any of the working women I
met with recently in Atlanta and Santa Fe. Or ask the 250,000 working women who
responded to a Department of Labor survey earlier this year.
"We have to be a wife, a mother and a professional, and to be ourselves, which
usually takes last place," a 37-year-old intensive-care nurse said at a chips-and-salsa
get-together in Santa Fe.
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"I nearly kill pedestrians trying to get to the day-care center on time (to avoid the
late fees after 6 p.m.)," an assistant bank vice president told me in Atlanta.
Even a federal judge was feeling the pressure. "When I was a lawyer, ail of the
partners had wives who didn't work," said this mother of four. "They didn't have to
worry about picking up the dry cleaning or picking up the kids."
Today, three out of four working women have school-age children. The vast
majority of working women earn less than $25,000 a year. Not surprisingly, stress
ranks as the No. 1 problem for most of these women.
The clear message from many women and men I have talked to is that they
need a more supportive workplace culture.
Even at a place as hectic and workaholic as the White House, we have tried to
offer some flexibility to working parents. One of my husband's top campaign advisers
took a month off right before the election in 1992 to spend time with his new son. One
of my administrative assistants used to bring her newborn to the office and,
necessary, nursed him during meetings. Another member of my staff worked fre
home during the final two months of her pregnancy. In fact, we even keep a few toys
around the office in case parents need to bring their children to work.
We are hardly alone in this. Employers and organizations in the public and
private sectors are beginning to recognize that family-friendly workplaces are not just
good for morale but also for the bottom line:
-- In San Francisco, a group of businesses, unions and community groups
joined forces to establish a 24-hour day-care center for airport employees.
-- In Boston, a school-bus schedule was redesigned to make it easier for
children to get to after-school programs.
-- In Northern California, a consortium of law and consulting firms are
establishing an 800-hotline number that employees can call 24 hours a day, seven
days a week for pre-screened, in-home emergency child and elder care.
-- In New Jersey, a company with 3,000 employees is creating a pilot program
offering compressed four-day work weeks, job sharing, part-time and flex-time options,
and telecommuting for its work force.
Instead of leaving hard-working, stressed-out parents to fend for themselves, we
all need to do more to bring some harmony to our work and family lives.
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BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
RELEASE: WEEKEND, AUGUST 26-27, 1995
One day in the summer of 1978, I was knocking on doors in a small town in
eastem Arkansas, trying to drum up support for my husband in the upcoming election
for governor.
It was the middle of the day, and most of the people at home were older women
- women who I assumed would be going to the polls. Imagine my surprise when one
woman told me that her husband did the voting in their family. Another said that, since
her husband's death, she hadn't known whom to vote for. And a third explained that
she couldn't vote because she hadn't paid her poll tax, a requirement that had been
outlawed years before.
Seventeen years have passed since then, and as we celebrate the 75th
anniversary of women's suffrage, women in America are hardly flocking to the polls to
exercise their hard-won privileges.
A smaller percentage of women vote in national elections today than voted 30
years ago. Fewer than half go to the polls in non-presidential election years.
Sadly, many women feel that their vote doesn't really matter to their own futures
or the future of our country.
It might also be that we have SO many obligations in our everyday lives. Women
are busy raising children, taking care of aging parents, holding jobs (often working
longer hours for lower wages) and running households.
But even so, we all should be able to find the time to vote, especially now that
registration can be done at the local department of motor vehicles, the government
social services office, the public library or even through the mail.
We owe it to ourselves to make our voices heard. After all, women's suffrage did
not come easily. It took 72 years of hard work.
It took the vision of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who launched the suffrage
movement in 1848, and the courage of Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested, tried and
fined for attempting to vote in the presidential election of 1872.
It took thousands of others - from seamstresses to socialites -- who joined
parades, pageants and picket lines on behalf of suffrage.
It took men, too. Men like Harry Bum, the young legislator from Tennessee who
cast the decisive vote in favor of women's suffrage on Aug. 18, 1920, but only after
receiving an admonishing letter from his mother.
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"Dear son," said the letter from Mrs. J.L. Burn. "Hurrah and vote for suffrage.
I
have been watching to see how you stood, but have not noticed anything yet. Don't
forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. (Carrie Chapman) Catt put 'rat' in ratification.
Your Mother."
Harry Bum took his mother's advice, and eight days later, on Aug. 26, 1920,
suffrage was finally granted. But for months thereafter, Harry Bum had to travel the
state guarded by a local blacksmith who carried a big hammer in his pocket.
He got off easy compared to some. Many who campaigned for suffrage went to
jail for their cause. Some were scomed and ridiculed. Some lost Jobs. Some gave up
their possessions to raise money for hundreds of suffrage campaigns that were waged
in state legislatures and at state and national party conventions.
To those Americans, voting was the most fundamental right of living in a
democracy. It was essential to women's progress in the world. And that's why women
before us fought so hard to achieve it.
Women's suffrage, finally granted with ratification of the 19th Amendment, was
nothing short of a social revolution. With the vote, women In America could influence
laws. They could have some say over their destinies. They could enjoy the full
privileges of citizenship.
When I travel overseas, I think about suffrage often. On several recent trips, I
have met women who have been persecuted, imprisoned or even exiled for their
efforts to gain basic legal and political rights for women. I have visited countries, newly
freed from the yoke of totalitarianism, where citizens walk miles and stand in line for
hours to cast their ballots.
And each time, I come home thankful for the blessings we Americans have.
This week, let's celebrate the anniversary of women's suffrage by taking stock of
the sacrifices that so many women and men made on our behalf.
And let's remember the words of the great suffrage leaders.
As Sojourner Truth, the 19th century anti-slavery and women's rights advocate,
put it: "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn this world upside
down alone, then we together ought to be able to turn it right side up again."
But we can only do it if we vote.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire between the sexes. I don't mean to
suggest that men and women are having an all-out war. For the most part. we
get along pretty well. It's just that rigid stereotypes sometimes make us enemies
instead of allies.
We've all heard disparaging comments about successful career women
being inadequate wives and mothers, and stay-at-home moms wasting their
talent. We've also heard men being mocked for cooking meals, doing laundry or
earning less than their wives.
Women need more respect for the work they do in and out of their homes.
Men need more encouragement and support when they try to fulfill their
obligations as fathers and husbands.
How many women have urged their husbands to play a greater role in
child-rearing, only to criticize their every move, whether it's putting a diaper on
wrong or letting the kids stay up too late? I admit, I've done it too. The first time
Bill tried to feed Chelsea, I watched him like a hawk.
Fortunately, I learned over the years that my way of handling things
wasn't necessarily better just because I was a woman. And I came to realize
how lucky I was that my husband enjoyed getting our daughter ready for school,
giving her a bath and reading her bedtime stories.
I'm also lucky to have grown up in a family where we children never
thought it odd that our parents didn't always fit the typical 1950s family mold.
It's true that in many ways our family was right out of "Father Knows Best."
My father worked, and my mother stayed at home to care for me and my
brothers. But while my mother cooked most of our daily meals, my father always
spent Saturday night serving up his special hamburgers and making us hearty
soups. My mother, meanwhile, hit thousands of tennis balls to us and even ran
an occasional pass pattern when we played touch football.
A generation later, there is still a lot of confusion about who is supposed
to do what when it comes to parental roles.
For the most part, child rearing is still considered "women's work." Even
when women with children share the breadwinner role with their husbands,
they almost always bear the primary -- and disproportionate -- responsibility for
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care-giving and homemaking. It is an arrangement that not only gives short
shrift to women but also to men and children.
False notions of "masculine" and "feminine" behaviors only serve to
paralyze adults even further In their efforts to become the best parents they can
be. Is a mother who is ambitious for her children and husband acting "feminine,"
and a woman who is ambitious on behalf of her own career acting "masculine"?
Is a father who soothes a crying child acting "feminine" while one who plays
sports with his kids acting "masculine"?
These are all human behaviors that both men and women display,
depending on their particular temperaments and circumstances.
If we truly care about strong familles, strong communities and strong
societies, we have to recognize that men and women can complement each
other inside and outside the home. We should not be adversaries but partners
in all our efforts, especially those on behalf of our children.
Regardless of which spouse is the main breadwinner or the primary
caretaker for children, neither should have to feel guilty about making choices
that are right for the family.
A friend of mine married after she was 40 and had a child at 45. Her
husband works from home and has assumed the bulk of the child-care and
homemaking duties. She, meanwhile. has continued a hectic professional life
that frequently keeps her in the office late at night and takes her out of town.
Another of my closest friends chose the opposite path. She quit teaching
after the first of her three children was born. Until her youngest son was grown,
she devoted herself full-time to her children.
Both women and their husbands say they are leading fulfilling -- If not
easy - lives. To borrow a phrase from anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson,
these parents have "composed a life" best suited to their and their family's
needs and priorities.
In the end, that is what "women's rights" is all about: Making it possible
for women -- and men -- to contribute their unique skills and strengths to their
families and society.
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6/4/96
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An extraordinary woman is coming to the White House next week: Mary
Robinson, the President of Ireland. She is also a mother, a human rights lawyer, a law
professor, a force for reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics, and a voice for
women all over the world.
I met President Robinson last year when Bill and I were in Dublin. I admire her
efforts to legalize contraception and to help women win the right to sit on juries when
she was a young legislator in the Irish Senate. In outlining her philosophy, she has
quoted the early feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, who said 200 years ago: "I do not
wish women to have power over men but over themselves."
President Robinson's message about women's empowerment echoes the
thoughts and words of many other women I have spoken with around the world during
the past three and a half years.
Whether they are scholars, poets, historians, journalists, political activists or
stay-at-home mothers, women have much to teach each other about the choices and
challenges we face as we try to lead integrated lives.
As the writer Deborah Tannen has pointed out in her books about
communication and gender, women need to talk, and often they need to talk to each
other. It is that need for conversation and direct communication that distinguishes most
women from most men.
As women, talking can be our greatest friend. That's why I'm so excited that
President Robinson will be in the United States, spreading her message of humanity
and opportunity for the people of Ireland and for women everywhere.
It's also why I feel so fortunate to have had face-to-face discussions about
women's lives with everyone from the Prime Minister of Norway, to the Empress of
Japan, to a destitute mother of 10 children in a dusty village in rural Pakistan.
When the best-selling author Mary Pipher visited me recently at the White
House, we talked about our lives and the pressures confronting teen-age girls today.
The poet Maya Angelou teaches me about literature and life, particularly from
the perspective of an African-American woman who grew up in Arkansas and is now a
citizen of the world.
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Rose Styron, the writer and human rights activist, always provokes my thinking
about the obligations we owe to men and women whose names are unknown, yet who
are suffering for the cause of freedom and democracy.
Historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Blanche Wiesen Cook both have shared
their thoughts about Eleanor Roosevelt, someone I wish I could have talked to in
person about the role of First Lady. In fact, I occasionally have imaginary
conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to try to figure out what she would do in my shoes.
She usually responds by telling me to buck up or at least to grow skin as thick as a
rhinoceros.
Mary Catherine Bateson, an anthropologist and the daughter of Margaret Mead,
has written many books, including one called "Composing a Life." She and I have
spent hours discussing the ways in which women in different societies attempt to fulfill
their responsibilities to their families, jobs and communities.
Jean Houston, an expert on philosophy and mythology, has shared her views
with me on everything from the ancient Greeks to the livés of women and children in
Bangladesh.
I've even had the pleasure of sitting across the dinner table from Ann Landers,
asking advice on matters both trivial and not-so-trivial.
But of all the women I've had the chance to meet, I've probably learned the most
from those you've never heard of -- women who have never written a book, appeared
on television or been the subject of a newspaper article. From a poor barrio in
Managua, Nicaragua, to a grassy field in Indonesia, I've met women who find comfort
and unity in telling each other about their children, jobs, families, health, education
and all the issues that touch their lives.
I don't always agree with what I hear. What's important is to have the chance to
listen to women whose perspectives and ideas may differ from my own so that I can
broaden my understanding of women's lives and roles today.
Whoever is doing the talking, the stories we share contribute to our history as
women and our understanding of our own time.
I hope we will all make time to talk things over with each other.
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June 4, 1996
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6/25/96
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Not long after taking office, my husband came home from a jog early one
morning to find Kenneth Weaver, his wife, Rosie, and their three children waiting to
introduce themselves. One daughter, Melissa, was in a wheelchair. Eleven years old
and battling a rare form of cancer, she had come to Washington through the Make-a-
Wish foundation.
As the President was getting ready to leave, Kenneth grabbed him by the arm.
He wanted my husband to know that the first bill he had signed as President -- the
Family and Medical Leave Act had made a huge difference to the Weaver family.
"Mr. President, let me tell you something," Kenneth said. "My little girl here is
desperately ill. She's probably not going to make it." But because of the family leave
law, he was able to take time off from work to be with Melissa without fear of losing his
job. It was, he told the President, "the most important time I ever spent in my life."
Six days later, Melissa died.
The Family and Medical Leave Act requires companies with 50 or more workers
to grant up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-guaranteed leave to employees who need the
time to care for children, spouses or parents with serious health conditions. It also
grants time off for workers who are ill themselves and for parents who have just given
birth to a new baby or adopted a child. In short, the law helps American workers avoid
making an impossible choice between livelihood and parenthood.
When family leave became law in August of 1993, its opponents worried that it
would hurt businesses and be abused by workers. But a recently released study
conducted by a bipartisan commission has shown that those fears were unfounded.
As many as 3 million workers used the Family and Medical Leave Act during the
18 months covered in the study. Most took about 10 days off far short of the 12-week
maximum. Eighty-four percent of the leave-takers returned to their same employers.
And some 90 percent of businesses reported that complying with the law required little
or no extra cost.
In some cases, companies found that the policy actually helped them save
money by reducing turnover and eliminating the expense of training new workers. "If
the ethical obligation we all have as employers isn't reason enough to support these
types of leaves, the financial impact certainly is," Terri Wolfe, human resources director
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at Patagonia, a large clothing manufacturer, told the bipartisan commission. "The
choice to implement family and medical leave policies is a matter of priorities."
Taking care of and spending time with a loved one who is seriously ill is an
emotionally wrenching and physically draining process. I know from my own
experience.
When my father fell ill just after we moved into the White House, I flew back to
Little Rock and spent more than two weeks at his bedside. My father, mother, brothers
and I spent hours reminiscing about the old days in our home on Wisner Street in Park
Ridge, III. We laughed about our vacations to Pennsylvania and my brothers'
childhood hijinks. We talked of Chelsea and our hopes for her. Although we didn't --
and couldn't -- say it in so many words, those weeks helped us strengthen our bonds
of affection, respect and love. I'll always be grateful that I could be with my father
before he died.
I was lucky because 1 didn't have to make a choice between family and work. I
was no longer working as a lawyer, and my husband was President. I was able to give
my family all the time and attention they needed.
The same should be true for all Americans.
This week, at Vice President and Mrs. Gore's annual family conference in
Nashville -- which this year focused on balancing the pressures of family and work
responsibilities -- the President announced several new initiatives to make America's
workplaces even more "family friendly." He hopes to expand family leave to allow for
24 hours of unpaid time off each year so that parents can attend parent-teacher
conferences and take children or elderly relatives to the doctor. And he wants to
change labor laws to give workers the option of taking their overtime pay in time off
from work.
We should all consider the family leave law a positive first step in our effort to
strengthen families in America. We need to find other ways of giving American workers
more flexibility to care for their children and their parents without hurting their
employers' bottom lines.
The President never forgot his meeting with Kenneth Weaver and his daughter
Melissa. They are a reminder of the difference one law can make in the lives of our
children and families.
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