FAFSA Delays-Navigating the Thorny Landscape of College Unaffordability
For many low-income college students, the prevailing Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) delays are causing added panic to our ever-growing educational crisis of soaring college costs. IWPR's Policy Team weighs in.
FAFSA Delays-Navigating the Thorny Landscape of College Unaffordability
For many low-income college students, the prevailing Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) delays are causing added panic to our ever-growing educational crisis of soaring college costs. IWPR's Policy Team weighs in.
Join our president and CEO C. Nicole Mason as she will be moderating Shaping the Future of Work: A Conversation about Women and Work Post-Covid — a co-sponsored event with PBS and Institute for Women's Policy Research! Tune in tomorrow Oct 13 to see featured panelists from Women Employed, Cara Chicago, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth. #FutureOfWorkPBS #shecession Register for the free virtual event today! https://bit.ly/3vdFjoE
#JobsDay is here! New data show decline in women's jobs on payroll, for the first time since December 2020. Men’s jobs on payroll increased by 200k while women’s fell by 26k. The gender gap in recovery widens. Women are still 2.9 mil below pre-COVID-19 levels, men are 2.1 mil below. #shecession ### New Institute for Women's Policy Research chart shows #unemployment fell for women across race/ethnicity, for Asian women (unadj.) from 4.2 to 3.4%, Black women 7.9% to 7.3%, [...]
By Eve Mefferd Work in the construction trades, with high wages and good benefits for union members, can be a promising path to economic security for women. However, the industry presents additional challenges for those with children. For the many parents who work in the trades— half of the 2,635 respondents to IWPR’s 2021 Tradeswomen’s Retention and Advancement Survey have children younger than 18 (forthcoming)— finding child care that covers construction hours can be difficult, since construction jobs often require [...]
We are proud to stand with 48 organizations on an ad urging Congress & @WhiteHouse to #BuildBackBetterwithWomen! Paid family & medical leave Affordable child care Home & community-based services Parent tax relief Lower health care costs https://bit.ly/3liBIlW
Recent @TIME article by @edockterman — Women earn 82 cents on the dollar compared to men —that gap widens for Black and Latina women, who earn 63 cents and 55 cents on the dollar, respectively, per @IWPResearch data.
Long-term unemployment a challenge for women over 40 — “Older women of color disproportionately lost jobs during the pandemic and may face discrimination in the labor market,” says @CNicoleMason in recent @Marketplace feature by Meghan McCarty Carino.
