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Related: About this forumIvanka Trump plans global women's economic development push
Source: Associated Press
Ivanka Trump plans global womens economic development push
By CATHERINE LUCEY
December 31, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) Ivanka Trump is set to launch a White House effort aimed at womens global economic empowerment in early 2019.
A formal launch for the initiative was planned for next week but has been postponed amid uncertainty about the government shutdown, the White House said Monday. The original plan for the event included remarks from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton, as well as from officials from a host of government agencies, financial organizations and private businesses, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Walmart and Bank of America.
The initiative, which is backed by the State Department and the National Security Council, seeks to align government agencies behind the mission of supporting womens economic development around the world. It will also include private-sector investment. First daughter Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser who has made supporting women in business part of her portfolio, led the policy process over the past year and a half.
I look forward to continuing to work with the interagency and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to advance womens access to vocational training, fuel female entrepreneurship and lift legal and social barriers that restrict our full and free economic participation, Ivanka Trump said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Bolton said in a statement that the initiative directly supports President Trumps National Security Strategy.
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By CATHERINE LUCEY
December 31, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) Ivanka Trump is set to launch a White House effort aimed at womens global economic empowerment in early 2019.
A formal launch for the initiative was planned for next week but has been postponed amid uncertainty about the government shutdown, the White House said Monday. The original plan for the event included remarks from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton, as well as from officials from a host of government agencies, financial organizations and private businesses, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Walmart and Bank of America.
The initiative, which is backed by the State Department and the National Security Council, seeks to align government agencies behind the mission of supporting womens economic development around the world. It will also include private-sector investment. First daughter Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser who has made supporting women in business part of her portfolio, led the policy process over the past year and a half.
I look forward to continuing to work with the interagency and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to advance womens access to vocational training, fuel female entrepreneurship and lift legal and social barriers that restrict our full and free economic participation, Ivanka Trump said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Bolton said in a statement that the initiative directly supports President Trumps National Security Strategy.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/3daa485acfd541d3b3e626ceaacd906f
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Ivanka Trump plans global women's economic development push (Original Post)
Eugene
Dec 2018
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nycbos
(6,034 posts)1. Not The Onion?
Rocky888
(297 posts)2. Her and Melania in a one up competition who can
Make up an organization they can suck dry fo self enrichment. Both these women are despicable.
Freethinker65
(9,999 posts)3. Be born wealthy or marry a wealthy asshole like my step-mom?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)4. Sounds like a GREAT IDEA ... and if she, and the White House, are serious about it ... they deserve
our support in this particular endeavor.
Nothing would help the world more than wide-spread female empowerment of this kind.
I'll support this 'mission' of hers ... at least until I see signs that it's actually just political whitewashing bullshit.
Which I FULLY EXPECT ... and would bet on ...
But if not ... then GREAT!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)5. Looking for cheap labor anywhere she can find it.
fierywoman
(7,668 posts)7. AKA she's re-structuring and re-branding IvankaInc.