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Report: To Reach Educational Attainment Goals, Student Parents Must be Reengaged in Higher Education

by Sarah Wood To meet workforce demands, two national educational attainment goals have been introduced over the last decade. In 2008, the Lumina Foundation pushed to achieve a 60% completion rate for post-secondary credentials and degrees among adults aged 25 to 64 by 2025. A [...]

July 9, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , |

New IWPR Research Shows Helping Parents Complete College Degrees is a Key Missing Element in the Economic Recovery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 8, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | weber@iwpr.org | (646) 719-7021 Washington, DC – A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) makes a compelling case that getting parents who have not earned a degree back to college [...]

Student Parents are Key to Our Post-Pandemic Recovery

By Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez As students quickly shifted to remote learning with the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Ashley de Jesus shifted to another reality — parenthood. In addition to adjusting to a new learning landscape, Ashley, a single mother, found herself navigating a social [...]

July 8, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , , , |

Fact-Checking Utah’s Reputation As the Worst State for Women’s Equality

By Becky Jacobs Utah is routinely labeled as the worst state for women’s equality, and that ranking is often due to these factors in the lives of women who live here: They earn less, due to the gender wage gap. They have less education, based [...]

July 7, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , |

Pre-COVID Snapshot Puts NY in Top 5 for Women’s Economic Standing

By Michayla Savitt ALBANY, N.Y. -- Before the pandemic, more women were in the workforce than ever before, and new research ranks New York state fifth in the country for women's economic standing. The report, from the Institute for Women's Policy Research, reveals both progress [...]

New Jobs Report Shows Strong Growth—But Increase in Unemployment Highlights Persistent Challenges

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 2, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | weber@iwpr.org | (646) 719-7021 Washington, DC – This month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirms substantial growth, with 405,000 new jobs on payroll for women (47.6% of 850,000 total). Yet, [...]

July 2, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: , , |