TEDMED | Periods aren't a luxury. Why are they taxed like one? @TEDMED | Uploaded March 2018 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Manhattan Assembly member Linda B. Rosenthal didn’t set out to be a period rights activist. But when she learned that menstrual hygiene products weren’t worthy of tax-free status, but that fruit roll-up snacks were, she made it her mission to eliminate the “tampon tax.” Watch Linda’s 2017 TEDMED Talk to learn more about her work to bring menstrual health into the mainstream of public dialogue.