Fall 2011 Newsletter
IWPR recently released two reports on economic security based on original data collected in the 2010 IWPR/Rockefeller Survey of Economic Security.
The Gender Wage Gap in New York State and Its Solutions
This gender wage gap has pernicious consequences for women and their families. 14.8 percent of women in New York State had incomes at or below the official poverty threshold (for families of their size and composition).
Small Steps Forward in Job Gains, But Not Enough to Close Gender Gap
By Caroline Hopper On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]
City Takes Action to Address High Rates of Homelessness in New Orleans
2008 photo of the B.W. Cooper housing development in [...]
Slow Job Growth in November for Both Women and Men
Job growth remained slow in November with 120,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls.
One Community of Women and Men: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
By Amanda Lo The Woodrow Wilson Center and United States [...]
Paid Sick Days Could Save Billions
This week, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released [...]
Is the Recovery Starting for Women? Slow Job Growth in October for Both Women and Men.
Job growth slowed in October with 80,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls. This is down from 104,000 new jobs in August and 158,000 in September.
Women’s Rights and the Arab Spring for Morocco
By Amanda Lo In September, I attended a panel about [...]
The Recession and Older Americans
by Betsy Keating According to recent Senate testimony from a [...]
