The Treasury Department is putting a woman on the $10 bill, starting in 2020

$10 bills.
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Andrew Jackson, you're safe for now.

For several months, the Women on $20s organization has been calling for a notable woman to replace the seventh president on the $20 bill, with voters choosing abolitionist Harriet Tubman as the ideal candidate. Instead of changing the $20, however, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday that a woman will actually appear on the redesigned $10 bill by 2020. "Our democracy is a work in progress," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said during a press conference. "The decision of putting a woman on the $10 bill reflects our aspirations for the future as much as a reflection of the past."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.