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Time to turn the tables on a "covert price-gouging system"

The Blue Tax/Angie Frank

Why should pink pacifiers cost more than blue ones?  Why should women's disposable razors cost 13% more than men's?

You may not have heard of the so-called "pink tax," but chances are, you've paid it.  It costs woman over $1300 more a year, in fact. 

Angie Frank had a business creating personal care products from natural ingredients, so when customers asked for a beard oil, she developed one, charged 13% more for it ... and that's when the inspiration hit.

More information about Blue Tax is available here and on Facebook.

Angie says:
 
To learn more about the pink tax:
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/money/a27409442/what-is-pink-tax/
https://axthepinktax.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As2p2vsdrfk
 
Past organizations BLUE TAX has donated to:
May- Ms. Foundation
https://forwomen.org/
 
June- Communities United Against Police Brutality
https://www.cuapb.org/
 
July- OutFront Minnesota
https://www.outfront.org/
 
August- Juxtaposition Arts
https://juxtapositionarts.org/

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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