Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Is it time for a woman to be featured on the US$20 bill?


MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- Barbara Ortiz Howard already has a day job maintaining apartment buildings near New York City. Now she has a second job and it's all about money. No, not earning it -- she wants to fix what she says is wrong with it.

"There are no women on the money and I thought gee this is a crazy omission," said Howard.

Howard is on a mission to send President Andrew Jackson packing and put a woman on the $20 bill. After long hours of research, she and some friends came up with a list of 15 extraordinary women. Though Howard says they're all her favorites, she clearly has a soft spot for Harriett Tubman, who rescued slaves on the Underground Railroad.

The list are as follows:

Shirley Chisholm
Betty Friedan
Susan B Anthony
Rosa Parks
Sojourner Truth
Frances Perkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
Barbara Jordan
Harriet Tubman
Alice Paul
Patsy Mink
Clara Barton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Margaret Sanger
Rachel Carson

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I say leave the bill alone and start your own currency. 

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