Oct. 18, 2019: Tax On Menstrual Products; 'The Cave' Syria Documentary

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English - October 18, 2019 17:38 - 43 minutes - ★★★★ - 703 ratings
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On average, people who menstruate spend an estimated $150 million dollars a year just on the sales tax for pads and tampons. We talk with an activist about the legal fight to end the so-called tampon tax and the nation's first-ever Period Day. Plus, National Geographic will release a documentary on Friday called "The Cave" about an underground hospital in a suburb of Damascus that was bombed by the Syrian government. Host Peter O'Dowd talks to Oscar-nominated filmmaker Feras Fayyad about his documentary.