This Research-in-Brief is based on selected findings from a new book by Jody Heymann, Director of Policy at the Harvard Center for Society and Health. Published by Basic Books in 2000, The Widening Gap: Why America’s Working Families are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It reveals the failure of our nation’s employer-based support system to help families meet their caregiving responsibilities.
Decreased civic and political participation is a pressing problem in our country.
This report presents findings of an exploratory study about job training for low-income people, particularly women leaving welfare.
Summer 2001 Quarterly Newsletter
Even as the death rate from breast cancer in younger white women has fallen 7 percent over the last two decades, it has risen by 26 percent in older African American women; this, despite lower incidents of the disease itself
Recent research shows that women who leave welfare generally end up in low paying jobs with few benefits, if any. Many welfare recipients lack basic job skills that would make them appealing to employers and help them move out of dead-end jobs.
A look at the unequal distribution of unemployment insurance and flaws in the system that prevent women from receiving earned benefits.
Evaluates costs and benefits of switching birth control pills to over-the-counter status to improve women’s access to contraceptives.
Discusses how unequal access to unemployment insurance (UI)specifically affects welfare recipients.
The Georgia unemployment insurance (UI) system is not working to meet its basic goal of providing a modest measure of income support to temporarily unemployed working families.
