Saudi Arabia, UAE will donate $100M to Ivanka Trump-Proposed Women Entrepreneurs Fund

[james_1957]

Ivanka...she's beautiful, rich, smart & committed to women’s economic empowerment.

Two Arab countries have pledged to donate $100 million towards a fund designed for women entrepreneurs proposed by the president’s eldest daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, according to a report.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will contribute $100 million towards the World Bank’s Women Entrepreneurs Fund, which Ivanka proposed, the Wall Street Journal reported.

ABC News reported that World Bank president Jim Yong Kim announced the countries’ pledge at a Sunday event on women’s economic empowerment with Ivanka.

At the event, Ivanka praised Saudi Arabia for making “progress” as a nation towards empowering women, but she added that “there’s still a lot of work to be done.”

“Saudi Arabia’s progress, especially in recent years, is very encouraging but there’s still a lot of work to be done and freedoms and opportunities to continue to fight for,” she said. “The stories of Saudi women, such as yourselves, catalyzing change, inspire me to believe in the possibility of global women’s empowerment.”

The Islamic nation prohibits women from driving and requires that women get permission from a man to travel in public. It also imposes strict segregation of the sexes and requires that women cover themselves in public.

The first daughter, along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, proposed the idea for the $1 billion fund to the World Bank, USA Today reported.

The proposed fund would be controlled entirely by the World Bank, which means Ivanka would not be involved in the fund’s management or solicit funds for the initiative, but she would remain an advocate for the project, Bloomberg Politics reported.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...anka-trump-proposed-women-entrepreneurs-fund/

 

[james_1957]

Where are all the Ivanka haters?

Does it trouble you that Ivanka wants to empower women?

 

[adrina]

You post something to get a specific response. And then bait further when you don't get it right away.

Transparent and impatient.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Ivanka...she's beautiful, rich, smart & committed to women’s economic empowerment.

To the very limited extent she understands it -- of which her new book, based on Samantha Bee's review thereof, gives no indication whatsoever.

 

[james_1957]

To the very limited extent she understands it -- of which her new book, based on Samantha Bee's review thereof, gives no indication whatsoever.

Samantha Bee? Isn't she married to Jason Jones.

The Upper West Side Is the Latest Battleground for School Integration in New York.

Like so many public schools in New York City, P.S. 452 has a lopsided enrollment, with a population that’s three-quarters white and Asian, with only 13 percent of kids qualifying for free lunch, in a district that’s 43 percent white and Asian and 48 percent low-income, according to a Chalkbeat story on the brewing controversy.

P.S. 452, which opened in 2010 to relieve overcrowding in other nearby sought-after schools, quickly became overcrowded itself. And so the city proposed moving the school, which currently shares a building with two other schools, 16 blocks south, to a site with more space that happens to be just adjacent to large housing projects. In one swoop, the city could solve the school’s capacity problem while improving its diversity.

One P.S. 452 parent speaking out against the move is comedian and former Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, who’s married to Samantha Bee. "To portray any opposition as classist or racist is as bad as it can get," Jones told WNYC. And elsewhere: "We are not divided,” he said at a public hearing about the proposal, “we are absolutely united in wanting what's best for our children," then encouraged fellow parents not to talk to the press about the controversy.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled...s_latest_school_integration_battleground.html

 

[jaF0]

Lil'Vanky must swallow well.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Samantha Bee? Isn't she married to Jason Jones.

Yes, she is. Which neither validates nor invalidates anything she says.

 

[OldJourno]

Lil'Vanky must swallow well.

A curious comment. I thought liberals were all about empowering women, but I guess that only counts in certain situations.
And if it doesn't fit those certain situations, it's OK to degrade the woman in question.

 

[KingOrfeo]

A curious comment. I thought liberals were all about empowering women, but I guess that only counts in certain situations.
And if it doesn't fit those certain situations, it's OK to degrade the woman in question.

It degrades no woman to say she swallows well.

 

[jaF0]

A curious comment. I thought liberals were all about empowering women, but I guess that only counts in certain situations.
And if it doesn't fit those certain situations, it's OK to degrade the woman in question.

Shows she know how to use head ... errr, her head.