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Beauty, Business and Politics with Bliss the Hair Doctor, Christine Paige (Youtube & Podcast)

Christine Paige, a.k.a. Bliss the Hair Doctor, is a big thinker and serious about her career as a Hair Stylist, Hair Replacement Specialist and Owner of a Medical Hair Replacement Center. But imagine her surprise at being tapped to share her experiences with the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris! This Paul Mitchell graduate and National Artist, gives us play by play of that experience, as well as how her commitment to learning more about running her business, also positioned her to be a part of political projects in her state and most recently the focus of a full feature story in the L.A. Times!! Watch to learn more about her journey and gain some serious tips to take your salon/small business to a whole other level. To watch Christine’s full Round Table meeting with V.P. Kamala Harris, click here https://fb.watch/9CawxWBKTp/ ORIGINAL VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XAes...

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Paid Leave for All National Bus Tour kicks off from Rhode Island (National Television)

The Paid Leave for All National Bus Tour kicked off from Providence on Monday, beginning a 13 city tour to call on Congress to pass a national paid leave policy as part of the next infrastructure bill. All four members of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation were scheduled to be on hand, but Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse were both in Washington working on the infrastructure bill. United States Representatives James Langevin and David Cicilline, both supporters of a national paid leave program, were on hand.

The United States (along with Papua New Guinea) is one of the only two countries in the world that doesn’t guarantee any form of paid leave – yet paid leave enjoys broad bipartisan support as a top issue for voters in key battleground states heading into 2022.

“We have the opportunity to finally catch up to the rest of the world, to finally do something meaningful for every working family in this country, to build back better and to make history, by finally passing Paid Leave for All in the United States,” said Dawn Huckelbridge, National Director of Paid Leave for All. “Paid leave is a tool for public health, for economic resilience and growth, and for racial and gender equity.”

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Christine Paige Bliss Medical Hair Replacement Center Kamala Harris (Providence Journal)

Harris makes the case for Biden's American Rescue Plan in Providence

Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday pitched the Biden administration's multi-trillion dollar infrastructure and family plans to Rhode Island small business owners whose stories she said show why it is needed.

"The reason that I am here is ... to carry your story as the story of America's economy and the potential of America's economy," Harris told a group of business women in a roundtable discussion focusing on how they survived the COVID pandemic.

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Vice President Harris and Commerce Secretary Roundtable Discussion on Businesses (C-SPAN TV)

Vice President Harris and Commerce Secretary Raimondo participated in a women-led small business roundtable.

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Infrastructure should include child care, Harris and Raimondo say (Boston Globe)

Vice President Kamala Harris poses for a photo after a roundtable with women-led small business owners Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Providence, R.I. From left: Christine Paige, owner of Bliss Medical Hair Replacement Center, Vice President Kamala Harris;; Minnie Luong, founder and owner of Chi Kitchen Foods; Suzanne Ellis Wernevi, founder of lunaandstella.com; and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Think Kamala Harris didn’t need to visit Rhode Island? Tell that to the people who met her (Boston Globe)

It’s true. Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t need to travel to Rhode Island on Wednesday.

Sure, everyone should visit Books on the Square at least once in their lives, but a Democratic vice president visiting our state is a bit like preaching to the choir.

But then you watch the pure joy on the face of someone like Christine Paige, a Black salon owner who makes custom wigs for people suffering from hair loss for medical reasons, as she realizes that she just spent an hour talking to the vice president about what her business needs to survive.

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Here are some of the female business leaders meeting with Vice President Harris (Boston Globe)

PROVIDENCE— When Vice President Harris sits down with business leaders in Rhode Island on Wednesday, she won’t be talking to executives from Fortune 500 companies. The women she and the former Rhode Island governor, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, will be meeting are founders and leaders of small businesses based in the Ocean State.

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How a brief brush with Kamala Harris changed a wigmaker’s life (LA Times Television)

Rhode Island wigmaker Christine Paige will always remember the moment she received a text from the White House, asking if she would like to participate in a roundtable discussion with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Paige and L.A. Times correspondent Noah Bierman joined Lisa McRee to share the story of the small business owner’s surprising encounter with the vice president.

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How a brief brush with Kamala Harris changed a wigmaker’s life (LA Times Newspaper)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. —

Christine Paige, a hairdresser and wigmaker, was confused and a little suspicious when she got a text purporting to be from the White House asking if she would participate in an event with Vice President Kamala Harris.

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