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Study: Reproductive Restrictions Damage Working Women, State Economies

By Roz Brown AUSTIN, Texas - Access to birth control has been responsible for one third of women's wage gains since the 1960s, and restrictions on reproductive health could reverse those gains, according to the [...]

From Tourism to Tool Belts: Post-COVID Opportunities for Women in New Orleans

By The IBEW Media Center “If someone doesn’t know what they want to do in life, they should join the IBEW or any other apprenticeship,” said New Orleans Local 130 apprentice Grace Kluesner in a [...]

Relaxing Restrictions on Women’s Reproductive Rights is Positive for Economy, Study Shows

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research has released new research showing that policies restricting access to comprehensive reproductive health care are costly to women and states’ economies. Nevertheless, more than 500 bills restricting or banning [...]

Report Highlights Economic Impact of Reproductive Rights

By Andrea Sears NEW YORK -- An online tool from the Institute for Women's Policy Research makes the case that ending reproductive health restrictions is good for women and good for business. More than 500 [...]

Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income

By Emily Peck New signs of the nation's expanding recovery from the pandemic crop up every day, but for millions of women in the U.S. the economic punch of COVID may never be over. Long [...]

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A Woman’s Struggle to Overcome Long-Term Unemployment

By Mitchell Hartman The Labor Department’s jobs report for April found that more than 4 of every 10 (43%) unemployed Americans were “long-term unemployed,” meaning they had been out of work and actively looking for [...]

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