By Jamie Merisotis and Anne-Marie Slaughter There’s one big obstacle standing in the way of working parents getting these quality jobs: a college degree. And colleges are doing far too little to help them. There are 4.8 million undergraduates raising children — one-fourth of all [...]

SCOTT CARLSON: I'm Scott Carlson from The Chronicle of Higher Education , and I'm here with Barbara Gault, from the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Barbara, nice to have you at The Chronicle . BARBARA GAULT: Thanks for having me. Glad to be here. SCOTT [...]

By Regina Romero HB2579 represents blatant legislative overreach into local decision making. Proposition 202, passed by voters in 2006, clearly establishes that regulating nonwage benefits is a local issue. Ironically, many of the GOP politicians who are trying to subvert local control are the same [...]

By Regina Romero HB2579 represents blatant legislative overreach into local decision making. Proposition 202, passed by voters in 2006, clearly establishes that regulating nonwage benefits is a local issue. Ironically, many of the GOP politicians who are trying to subvert local control are the same [...]

By Hannah Orenstein Jensen isn't sure yet if she'll take any official legal action, but she still wants to fully understand why she wasn't given equal pay. "They should definitely be ashamed of themselves," she said. You might be wondering, why is a quarter such a [...]

By Danielle Paquette Still, Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a Washington think tank, said the welfare policies of the '90s were engineered to support society’s most vulnerable: poor children, who tend to live with their moms. “The goal was to employ [...]