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Currently, inmates get about 12 pads per cycle, and 52% of homeless women have to forgo using menstrual products at some point.

DivaCups and pads will also be exempt from sales tax.

The DOE says it may expand the pilot program to more high schools and middle schools city-wide.

"If men menstruated once a month, there is no way there would be a sales tax on these products."

NY pols call the tax "a regressive tax on women and their bodies that harkens back to a time when the laws were written by men for women."

A city councilwoman is trying to pass legislation that would make tampons available to teen girls for free.

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