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.
Latina women were among the hardest hit by the economic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, they are still facing difficult labor market conditions, including persistently low pay. This year, Latina Equal Pay Day is on October 3—a date representing the point in the year when Latinas have earned the same amount as White men had made by the end of the previous year. This means that Latinas had to work an additional 10 months to reach pay equity with [...]
Moms’ Equal Pay Day—taking place on August 7 this year—is a day to draw attention to the longstanding wage gap mothers in the workforce endure. IWPR’s latest fact sheet finds that mothers earn less than fathers in every single state. Nationally, employed mothers were paid just 62.5 cents per dollar paid to fathers in 2022. Mothers who worked full-time year-round were paid 71.4 cents per dollar compared to fathers. There are several intersectional challenges that contribute to the wage gap [...]
Two years ago, on a morning in late June, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and upending abortion access in the United States. Since then, we have witnessed a dizzying landscape of draconian abortion bans, new restrictions, and reverberating impacts throughout the country. But in the two years since the Dobbs ruling, we have also seen unprecedented civic action to push through ballot [...]
Pride Month has come and gone, and so has the over-the-top corporate support for the LGBTQ+ community. Throughout June, companies turn their logos rainbow, hang Pride flags from windows, and make questionable posts declaring “allyship” on social media. And yet, time and time again, companies have shown that their support for LGBTQ+ people is conditional on profitability. This marketing is glaringly inauthentic. In 2023, conservative backlash to LGBTQ+ inclusive campaigns set off a wave of boycotts, causing major brands to [...]
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day—a day to bring awareness to the extreme pay inequity that Black women face in the United States—is on July 9 this year. A new fact sheet from IWPR finds that, across the country, Black women with earnings make 66.5 cents for every dollar a White man makes. Black women face many barriers to achieving pay equity, including pay discrimination, occupational segregation, and obstacles to educational attainment. To achieve pay equity, IWPR proposes passing policy [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2024 Contact: William Lutz 202-785-5100 SCOTUS Allows Access to Emergency Abortion Care in Idaho—For Now Washington, DC — IWPR President and CEO Dr. Jamila K. Taylor issued the following statement after the Supreme Court’s decision prevented Idaho from enforcing its extreme abortion bans in cases where a pregnant person’s health is at risk while litigation continues, but failed to resolve the underlying question of whether state laws like Idaho’s take precedence over the federal Emergency [...]
