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Emily Ratajkowski says Robin Thicke crossed the line while filming the music video for “Blurred Lines,” a Grammy-nominated song which critics say objectifies women and promotes rape culture.

The Sunday Times reports that Ratajkowski’s upcoming book — brooks shoes My Body, out Nov. 9 — alleges that the singer groped her bare breasts on the set of the 2013 music video, in which she and two other near-naked models appeared alongside Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I.

The 30-year-old actress and model alleges that Thicke took her by surprise by touching her chest “from behind.”

“Suddenly, out of nowhere, I felt the coolness and foreignness of a stranger’s hands cupping my bare breasts from behind,” she writes. “I instinctively moved away, looking back at Robin Thicke.

“He smiled a goofy grin and stumbled backward, his eyes concealed behind his sunglasses. My head turned to the darkness beyond the set. [The director, Diane Martel’s] voice cracked as she yelled out to me, “Are you OK?”

Though the alleged moment made her feel “naked for the first time that day,” the Gone Girl star was “desperate to minimize” the situation. She reasoned that Thicke, who has spoken about his past abuse of drugs and alcohol, was “a little drunk” and “didn’t seem to be enjoying clarks shoes uk himself in the same way” on set.

“I pushed my chin forward and shrugged, avoiding eye contact, feeling the heat of humiliation pump through my body,” she writes. “I didn’t react — not really, not like I should have.”

Diane Martel, who directed the video, corroborated Ratajkowski’s account, telling the Times, “I remember the moment that he grabbed her breasts. One in each hand. He was standing behind her as they were both in profile.”

Martel said she responded to the alleged assault by shouting at Thicke, who she claims was drinking, adding, “I don’t think he would have done this had he been sober.”

“I screamed in my very aggressive Brooklyn voice, ‘What the f*** are you doing, that’s it!! The shoot is over!!’” she told the U.K. newspaper, adding that she had taken measures to make women feel comfortable on the set.

“Robin sheepishly apologized,” Martel says. “As if he knew it was wrong without understanding how it might have felt for Emily.”

According to Martel, Thicke’s record company was told the shoot would be halted, though a “very professional” Ratajkowski assured her that “we could go on.”

“We kept on and Emily was phenomenal,” Martel told the Times. “She’s really the star of the video. hey dude shoes She’s fully mocking him and the male gaze with her beautiful shape and ferocious energy. She’s playful, not seductive. And quite hilarious.”

In her book Ratajkowski says she didn’t dwell on the alleged incident until she realized that Thicke, now a judge on The Masked Singer, had blocked her on Instagram.

“With that one gesture, Robin Thicke had reminded everyone on set that we women weren’t actually in charge,” she says of her experience. “I didn’t have any real power as the naked girl dancing around in his music video. I was nothing more than the hired mannequin.”

Thicke has not yet publicly responded to Ratajkowski’s allegations. Yahoo has reached out to his representatives for comment and will update with their response.

• 410 economists urged Congress to make permanent $300 monthly checks to families with children.
• They wrote in a letter the child tax credit will significantly reduce childhood poverty in the US.
• Democrats are clashing over how to include the credit in their $3.5 trillion social spending bill.
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As Senate Democrats clash over steve madden shoes what an expanded child tax credit will look like in their $3.5 trillion social spending bill, over 400 economists laid it out simply: the credit should be made permanent to combat child poverty in the country.

On Wednesday, 410 economists, led by Berkeley economics professor Hilary Hoynes and Director of Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research Diane Schanzenbach, sent a letter to House and Senate leadership urging them to make the expanded child tax credit permanent.

The signatories, which included former top Obama administration economists Jason Furman and Betsey Stevenson, wrote that childhood poverty is a “staggering problem” in the US, affecting approximately one in seven children and indefinitely impacting their livelihoods as they grow up.

“Children growing up in poverty begin life at a disadvantage: on average they attain less education, face greater health challenges, and are more likely to have difficulty obtaining steady, well-paying employment in adulthood,” the economists wrote. The National Academy of Sciences estimated that because of those difficulties, ecco shoes child poverty has cost the country between $800 billion and $1.1 trillion each year.

The economists outlined four reasons why expanding, and making permanent, the child tax credit would be beneficial:

1. It would dramatically reduce poverty and improve children’s lives by improving childrens’ health and educational attainment;
2. It would be a long-term investment and bring in more tax revenue down the road by reducing government medical spending for children;
3. It would have minimal impact on employment given that the credit would phase out for high levels of earning;
4. And the vast majority of people use the credits to pay for necessities, like food and utilities.

President Joe Biden expanded the child tax credit through December in his stimulus law, in which individuals who earn $75,000 or less are eligible for up to either a $250 or $300 direct payment per child depending on their age.

Insider’s Madison Hoff reported last month that just the first round of payments managed to keep 3 million children out of poverty, signaling the substantial impact a further expanded credit would have for children and families across the country.

But Congressional Democrats are divided on basic provisions of the program, including how long to extend it and whether low-income families who don’t have to file taxes should be able to receive advance monthly payments, known as fully refundability.

House Democrats proposed renewing the nike sneakers program until 2025 in their social spending plan, along with locking in full refundability for families that don’t earn enough to pay taxes.

But the structure of the program could change due to resistance from Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a key centrist. He’s pushed a work requirement for parents to receive the credit. He told Insider on Tuesday that the benefit should only go to people paying taxes.

Many Democrats are balking at the idea, including architects of the measure like Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington and Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado.

“I think it’s already clear in the country the incredible benefits the child tax credit is delivering to families and I hope to find a way to preserve it in its current form,” Bennet told Insider on Tuesday.