Paid Sick Days in New York City Would Lower Health Care Costs by Reducing Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits
In New York City, 50 percent of working New Yorkers, or approximately 1,580,000 employees, lack access to paid sick days.
New Research from IWPR Finds Low Literacy Hurts Women More Than Men
By Kevin Miller In an analysis of data from the [...]
Tipped Over the Edge: Gender Inequity in the Restaurant Industry
The restaurant industry employs over 10 million workers in one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the United States economy.
Tipped Over the Edge: Gender Inequity in the Restaurant Industry (Executive Summary)
DOWNLOAD REPORT The restaurant industry employs [...]
Low Literacy Means Lower Earnings, Especially for Women
Appropriate literacy levels are crucial for both men and women seeking education and employment opportunities, but low literacy skills disproportionally hurt women’s chances of earning a sustaining wage.
Can Boomer Women Afford to Retire?
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Improved Job Growth in January for Both Women and Men: Women Re-Entering the Labor Force, But Men Leaving
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the February employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, job growth improved in January with 243,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls. In January, women gained 95,000 jobs (almost 40 percent, above their share for the past year) and men gained 148,000.
Messaging Social Security Takes Diverse Strategies
Kathryn Anne Edwards, Economic Policy Institute, on the panel [...]
Improving Job Quality for the Growing Number of Care Workers In the United States
By Jane Henrici, Ph.D., Nina Pasha, and Mansee Khurana The [...]
Winter 2012 Newsletter
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