Women Go For 20, Get 10
The U.S. Treasury Department announced that in 2020, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote, a woman's portrait (name TBD) will go on the 10 dollar bill. Susan Ades Stone, a journalist and the executive director and campaign strategist for Women on 20s, talks about her campaign to put a woman on the 20 dollar bill -- and why she'd prefer that to the 10. Plus: Mark Tomasko, a historian and the author of The Feel of Steel: The Art and History of Bank-Note Engraving in the United States, explains how our money is made.
.@WomenOn20s had 600K people vote; Harriet Tubman came out on top.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 23, 2015
@BrianLehrer @WomenOn20s @susanadesstone Since women STILL only make about 78 cents to a man's $1 will that $10 bill only be worth $7.80?
— Rod Thorn (@rodthorn) June 23, 2015
On many native american reservations, twenty-dollar-bill is not accepted, because of Andrew Jackson via @BrianLehrer http://t.co/KHIALXod3v
— Steve Musolino Jr (@stefanomjr) June 23, 2015
Here's @WomenOn20s' @susanadesstone & historian Mark Tomasko in the studio: pic.twitter.com/TCFKbwADwo
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) June 23, 2015
