Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:49 PM Comment on PL 107-42 To Whom it May Concern: Our government has justified the war on Afghanistan's Taliban by pointing out that: 1) The Taliban harbored the terrorists who attacked us, and 2) The Taliban abused human rights and especially those of women. This is abhorrent to us, because here we know men and women to be equal. That said, it is astonishing to learn that the FEDERAL compensation fund for victims of September 11 is partly basing payments on gender (as well as salary). Michael Rozen, the deputy special master of the fund, has said, "We will certainly take into account differing work life expectancies between men and women." On average, women work five years less than men. The statisticians in charge of calculating how to pay out the fund factor in this statistic, but not the unpaid labor of having and raising children. They don't count average 25 hours of housework per week that working women do (compared to 10 hours for men). A paid lifetime of this work could add up to $300,000. The statisticians don't include statistics that show that the higher a woman's educational level, the longer her work life. Since more women now attend college than men, the gap in work life expectancy is narrowing even more. None of this counts. The fund is using statistics at least two years old; there isn't time for new statistics to be factored in because the fund must start paying out NOW. Here's a novel idea: Throw out the statistics and grab a calculator. Divide the amount of money in the fund by the number of victims. Value all life equally. Individual Comment St. Louis, MO September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-19 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN002082.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-19