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Credit: Tax Credits on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) I recently had to abandon a film I was making about the gender wage gap. After spending a year on the project I couldn't raise enough money to support all three of us: the film, my dog and me.

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    05/4/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
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