By Elissa Nadworny and Jon Marcus To qualify for federal financial aid, for instance, students generally have to take at least two courses a semester, which is especially tough for working adults with families. They're not eligible at all for many state financial aid programs. Many colleges won't [...]

By Jon Marcus Many colleges won’t accept transfer credits that date back years. And the proportion offering on-campus childcare has declined, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports, to fewer than half of four-year universities and 44 percent of community colleges. That’s to say nothing of administrative offices [...]

Andre Perry When girls do get out of school and into the workforce, they have to work more than 66 years to earn what a white man earns in 40, the American Civil Liberties Union found. And while Alicia Garza, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Opal Tometi and other black [...]

By Additional data from the Institute for Women's Policy Research noted that Florida could be the first state to close the wage gap in just 21 years (29 years for black women) and Wyoming the last state in 136 years (190 years for black women). Additionally, the [...]

By Alexis Charles According to research by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), Black women are tied for the highest participation in the labor force among all women. Also… Read more>>

By Jillian Berman African-American women on average need to work for one year and seven months to earn the same yearly wage as white men and July 31 serves as a reminder of that stark piece of trivia. Known as Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, [...]