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Why Hillary Clinton Faces Steep Hurdles in Helping Student Parents
Why Hillary Clinton Faces Steep Hurdles in Helping Student Parents

Why Hillary Clinton Faces Steep Hurdles in Helping Student Parents

The image of the young, carefree, and untethered college student has been the norm for decades. Increasingly, however, reality looks very different. University lecture halls are filling up with older nontraditional students. These students bring with them job experience, adult financial responsibilities, and, in many [...]

August 25, 2015|Categories: Press Hits|

Single Moms and Welfare Woes: A Higher-Education Dilemma
Single Moms and Welfare Woes: A Higher-Education Dilemma

Single Moms and Welfare Woes: A Higher-Education Dilemma

Although most poor, single mothers today are employed, many of them are working in low-wage jobs, often in positions without benefits . Earning a college degree is typically the best route to a high-paying career but many of these women find it hard to squeeze [...]

August 25, 2015|Categories: Press Hits|

Who May Get a Boost From New Overtime Rules

The Obama administration’s move to expand overtime eligibility has the potential to impact millions of workers . And women, who are disproportionately concentrated in low-wage jobs , make up the majority of those who may stand to gain. A new analysis by the left-leaning Institute [...]

August 25, 2015|Categories: Press Hits|

Single Mothers ‘Most Likely’ to Benefit from Paid Overtime Expansion

A proposal to extend overtime pay eligibility to millions of workers would have its biggest impact on single mothers and women of color, according to a study published Tuesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and the advocacy group MomsRising. [...] Changing overtime [...]

August 25, 2015|Categories: Press Hits|

This Simple Addition to College Campuses Could Cut Costs for a Quarter of Undergrads

Democrats vying for the White House are promoting an unusual way to slash the cost of college for millions of American students: invest in daycare. Slightly more than a quarter of undergraduates in the United States are raising children. That’s about 4.8 million degree seekers who’ve [...]

August 25, 2015|Categories: Press Hits|

New Report Finds that Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery Policies Largely Ignored the Needs of Black Women from New Orleans’ Public Housing Buildings
New Report Finds that Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery Policies Largely Ignored the Needs of Black Women from New Orleans’ Public Housing Buildings

New Report Finds that Post-Katrina Disaster Recovery Policies Largely Ignored the Needs of Black Women from New Orleans’ Public Housing Buildings

In advance of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released a report presenting a comprehensive analysis of the interview responses of 184 low-income black women who were living in “The Big Four”—four large housing projects within the city of New Orleans, known as “the Bricks”—and who were displaced by the twin disasters of the hurricane and the flooding.

August 25, 2015|Categories: Press Releases|

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