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The little girl who asked Obama last year why there arent any women on U.S. bills has finally gotten a letter back from the President and shes invited to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
President Obama made waves last year when he mentioned he had received a letter from a little girl asking him to put some women on U.S. currency, which he called a pretty good idea. That letter was from Sofia, a Massachusetts girl who was just finishing third grade at the time.
I was studying Ann Hutchinson, who stood up for womens rights, she says. Almost everyone who chose a boy, on their poster they had pictures of different dollar bills or coins with their person on it. So I noticed, why dont women have coins or dollar bills with their faces on it?
http://time.com/3765227/woman-us-currency-obama-letter/
F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)It's pretty telling that we don't.
sdfernando
(5,379 posts)I actually have 20 or 30 dollars worth of those. But 1 no longer in minted certainly is not enough!
Mosby
(17,462 posts)And the Sacagawea golden dollar is still being produced.
It would be nice to see a woman on currency or a primary coin though.
sdfernando
(5,379 posts)These are collectibles not general circulation coins. It would be great to have a woman on a general circulation bill.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I got a bunch of Sacajawea dollars as change a few weeks ago.
The problem isnt the intent, ie circulation v. Collectible, it's that Americans still arent by and large into the idea of dollar coins as opposed to singles as bills.
And the faces on the bills- washington, lincoln, hamilton, jackson, grant etc. are pretty well established. Bumping one of them would be a tougher sell, politically.
mopinko
(71,802 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Someone asked him about the issue: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/20/jack-lew-doesnt-see-woman-on-20_n_6911810.html
sheshe2
(87,490 posts)Thanks Mosby.