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.
March marks Women’s History Month—an opportunity to celebrate and honor women’s contributions to society and the economy. Yet women’s work remains undervalued and underpaid. Women work in jobs that pay them less than men, both within the same occupation and across different sectors. Indeed, the long-standing gender and racial inequalities in the labor market were, yet again, largely due to occupational segregation. IWPR’s most recent analysis finds that: Women faced substantial wage gaps, irrespective of whether they worked in female-dominated [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2024 Contact: William Lutz 202-785-5100 Supreme Court Known for the Overturn of Roe v. Wade Tackles Medication Abortion, but the Safety and Effectiveness of Mifepristone Is Not in Question Washington, D.C. --- The Institute for Women’s Policy Research’s President and CEO, Dr. Jamila K. Taylor, today issued the following statement as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case that aims to restrict access to abortion by challenging the safety of mifepristone, the drug [...]
March is Women’s History Month, and as we celebrate the role women have played—and continue to play—in the United States, we also want to take the opportunity to highlight the women who are leading their states toward a more equitable future. While full gender parity across the highest elected state offices nationwide plods along, we do see slow but significant progress: even though just 12 of 50 states boast women governors at the helm, gubernatorial records were set in [...]
This year, March 12 marks Equal Pay Day—a day to draw awareness to the wage gap between women and men. In 2022, the most recent data available for full-time, year-round workers (2023 data will be out in September), the gender earnings ratio was 84.0 percent, meaning women, on average, were paid 16 cents less for every dollar earned by men. Said another way, women had to work 62 weeks to be paid what men were paid in just 52 [...]
“[Abortion] is not an issue easily distilled down to dollars and cents... In fact, it is rather dehumanizing!" 90-year-old Republican Senator Grassley exclaimed at the Senate Budget Committee hearing on February 28th, 2024 on the economic harms of restricting reproductive freedom. We disagree with the Senator - what’s dehumanizing is not discussing the very real economic impacts of restrictions on abortion and other reproductive healthcare, it’s the impacts of those restrictions on patients, doctors, and families that were the subject [...]
