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Men Beat Out Women in New Jobs

"From December 2009 through February 2011, men were hired for some 1.1 million jobs while women picked up only about 115,000, according to Sophia Koropeckyj, a managing director at Moody's Analytics , who examined payroll data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Put another way, [...]

March 31, 2011|Categories: Press Hits|

The Student Parent Trap

"Without the child-care scholarship she found through the Philadelphia-based nonprofit, Family Care Solutions, Rooney says, she's not sure what she would do. She'll find out this summer, when she's signed up for classes but won't have the scholarship. Student parents like Rooney make up about [...]

March 31, 2011|Categories: Press Hits|

Greater Access to Child Care Could Help More Students Graduate

" Greater access to on-campus child-care services would increase opportunities for low-income students who are also parents to complete their postsecondary education, says a new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The percentage of both two- and four-year campuses with on-site child-care centers declined from [...]

March 31, 2011|Categories: Press Hits|

Colleges Need More Child Care to Help Student Parents Graduate

According to a new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), greater access to on-campus child care facilities would increase opportunities for low-income student parents to complete postsecondary education, but only 5 percent of the child care needed by student parents is supplied at on-campus child centers.

March 22, 2011|Categories: Press Releases|