Commentary: How to Fix America's Crazy High Costs of College
All of the candidates’ plans address the problem of college [...]
Why Hillary Clinton Faces Steep Hurdles in Helping Student Parents
The image of the young, carefree, and untethered college student [...]
Foreword to Get to the Bricks: The Experiences of Black Women from New Orleans Public Housing after Hurricane Katrina
by Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D. This foreword appears in the IWPR [...]
New Report Finds that Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery Policies Largely Ignored the Needs of Black Women from New Orleans’ Public Housing Buildings
In advance of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released a report presenting a comprehensive analysis of the interview responses of 184 low-income black women who were living in “The Big Four”—four large housing projects within the city of New Orleans, known as “the Bricks”—and who were displaced by the twin disasters of the hurricane and the flooding.
Nearly Half of Currently Exempt Single Mothers and Black and Hispanic Women Workers Will Gain Coverage Under DOL’s New Proposed Overtime Salary Threshold
New report examines how women, mothers, women of color, and women in different occupations will be affected when the proposed rule goes into effect
Women Gain 115,000 Jobs in July and Men Gain 100,000 Jobs
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the August employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women gained 115,000 jobs and men gained 100,000 for a total of 215,000 jobs added in July. The overall unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.3 percent from June.
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Research News Roundup: July 2015
The Research News Roundup (RNR) is prepared monthly by the Institute for [...]
Your Newborn Daughter Will Be 43 Years Old When Massachusetts' Gender Pay Gap is Projected to Close
With women making about 82.5 percent of what men earned [...]
My Brother's Keeper, but Maybe Not My Sister's
Earlier this year, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research released [...]
