The irony shouldn’t be lost on feminists. The U.S. Treasury finally has decided to put portraits of women on its currency again just as the dollar becomes almost worthless and certainly useless. To be clear, it’s not quite totally worthless, but it’s getting close to the range where this is debatable. Using a simple inflation calculator, a dollar today is the equivalent of 12 cents in 1959, the year I was born. It equates to 7 cents in 1945 dollars, the year the United States triumphed in World War II. To people of a certain age, it’s clear that folks today treat dollar bills the way we once did the smallest coins in our pockets. |
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Jay Evensen is the Senior Editorial Columnist of the Deseret News. He has nearly 40 years experience as a reporter, editor and editorial writer in Oklahoma, New York City, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. He also has been an adjunct journalism professor at Brigham Young and Weber State universities. Archives
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