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The Maya Angelou quarter is the first in the American Women Quarters Program, which will feature other prominent women in U.S. history. The other quarters in the series will begin rolling out later this year and through 2025, according to the U.S. Mint.

The poet Maya Angelou is the first Black woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter

9:35pm January 10, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The Maya Angelou design is the first quarter in the "American Women Quarters Program" — a four-year program that will feature prominent women in U.S. history.

Supporters rally outside the U.S. Treasury Department in 2019 to demand that American abolitionist Harriet Tubman's image be put on the $20 bill.

Biden Administration Will 'Speed Up' Efforts To Put Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

4:27pm January 25, 2021

by Laurel Wamsley

Press secretary Jen Psaki said it's important that "our money ... reflect the history and diversity of our country." The effort to redesign the $20 bill foundered during the Trump administration.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks about the coronavirus at the White House on March 25. The Treasury said Monday it expects to borrow nearly $3 trillion in the April-June quarter.

Politics & Government

U.S. Treasury To Borrow $3 Trillion In 3 Months To Pay For Pandemic

6:04pm May 04, 2020

by Scott Horsley

In a single quarter, the government will borrow more than twice as much as it did all of last year, as the cost of the coronavirus pandemic dwarfs previous deficits.

Direct-deposit economic relief money is expected to be weeks ahead of physical checks.

Report: Adding Trump's Name To Checks Will Delay Them. IRS Says They're On Schedule

4:27pm April 15, 2020

by Danielle Kurtzleben

The IRS said the economic relief payments "are going out on schedule, as planned, without delay." The Washington Post reported that Trump's name would be included on the checks, an unprecedented step.

The U.S.-based Free Russia Foundation accuses Russia of exploiting Western legal systems. Above, supporters of arrested journalist Ivan Golunov (freed on Tuesday) gathered at a court building in Moscow.

Report: Russia Exploits Western Legal Systems, Institutions To Its Advantage

4:11pm June 12, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The U.S.-based Free Russia Foundation accuses Russia of "infiltrating the fabric of democracy," using international law and accounting firms, think tanks and institutions.

Wall Street financier Steve Mnuchin is being considered to serve as Treasury secretary under Donald Trump. Mnuchin assembled investors who bought IndyMac, a failed bank that had been taken over by the FDIC.

Trump's Potential Treasury Secretary Headed A 'Foreclosure Machine'

9:14am November 30, 2016

by John Ydstie

During the financial crisis Steve Mnuchin was working to make profits from the ruins of the housing bust. He assembled investors who bought IndyMac, a failed bank that had been taken over by the FDIC.

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A photograph of escaped slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman is was displayed on Capitol Hill last year.

#MemeOfTheWeek: Harriet Tubman And The Evolution Of Internet Phenomena

1:17pm April 21, 2016

by Sam Sanders

Over the course of just one day, Harriet Tubman and her new place on our money came to represent the eternal timeline of Internet phenomena.