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.
As Native American History month draws to a close, November 30th is Native Women's Equal Pay Day - a day that highlights the vast pay gap that Native women face compared to white men. Native women must work nearly twice as long as white men to earn the same amount. The impacts of the United States' history of native genocide, displacement, and persecution are still prevalent today, and ongoing systemic failures and neglect mean that Native women continue to face [...]
Based on the polling and political punditry that have dominated media headlines recently, last week’s election brought a host of surprises. As one critical race heads to a runoff and others may be subject to recounts, the full results and implications of this election will take weeks to unfold. While the remaining votes are counted, we at IWPR – like so many across the country – are taking stock of what this election means for us, our priorities, our work, [...]
Salary transparency is a fundamental part of the equation for pay equity. Institutional misogyny still thrives within places of employment, making women more susceptible to pay discrimination. With added institutional racism, women who exist at the crux of misogyny and racism must deal with added institutional barriers which limits their ability to attain pay equity. Salary transparency has become a significant step toward addressing the power imbalance between employers and employees and tackling the wage gap. It dispels the air [...]
Black Women's Equal Pay Day, which took place this year on September 21, is a nationally recognized day to highlight the pay and income disparities of Black women compared to their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts in the United States. Black women had to work 21.5 months to make what the average white man has earned in just 12 months. Despite being more likely to be the breadwinners of their families, Black women, on average, need a bachelor's degree to make [...]
On Tuesday September 27, 2022 Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the California Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act (SB1162). This new law builds upon pre-existing state fair pay laws and draws the connection between pay transparency and creating a more equitable future. Specifically, the law aims to combat the wage gap on the basis of race and gender in the state of California by requiring employers to disclose salaries of every position within their business along with introducing a [...]
IWPR’s Equal Pay Day blog series–including those analyzing data on Black women, AAPI women, Native women, Latina women, and Moms–highlights persistent gender wage gaps and unique challenges faced by marginalized communities in the labor market. Women’s experiences are not a monolith - this is especially true for Black women, who due to the history of institutional racism and misogyny in the United States, bear the unique brunt of experiencing both gender and racial discrimination simultaneously. The historical repercussions of [...]
