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Survey: Moms Want More Than Breakfast in Bed This Mother’s Day
Survey: Moms Want More Than Breakfast in Bed This Mother’s Day

Survey: Moms Want More Than Breakfast in Bed This Mother’s Day

By Eric Galatas CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- As Mother's Day draws near, a new survey conducted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research offers a clearer picture of what women in Wyoming and across the nation really want. C. Nicole Mason, president and CEO of the [...]

May 6, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Child Care, COVID-19, Mother's Equal Pay, Paid Leave, Public News Service|

New IWPR National Survey Shows That This Mother’s Day, What Women Want Is: Child Care, Paid Family Leave, and Good Jobs
New IWPR National Survey Shows That This Mother’s Day, What Women Want Is: Child Care, Paid Family Leave, and Good Jobs

New IWPR National Survey Shows That This Mother’s Day, What Women Want Is: Child Care, Paid Family Leave, and Good Jobs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 4, 2021 Contact: Liz Rose | 202-355-3559 | rose@iwpr.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new national survey from the Institute of Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) highlights the difficulties mothers face in 2021. This Mother’s Day, mothers are asking for universal high-quality [...]

May 4, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: Child Care, Paid Family Leave, Paid Medical Leave, Unpaid Labor, Working Mothers|

The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag
The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag

The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag

By Andrew Keshner All the money that women across the globe missed out on last year due to pandemic-related job losses and childcare obligations is more than the combined value of economies in 98 countries. That’s a new estimate from the global charity Oxfam, which [...]

May 2, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, MarketWatch, Pandemic, Recession, Unemployment, Working Mothers|

Biden’s Proposed Child Care Plan Will Save Families $96 Billion in Year 1, $957B Over 10-years
Biden’s Proposed Child Care Plan Will Save Families $96 Billion in Year 1, $957B Over 10-years

Biden’s Proposed Child Care Plan Will Save Families $96 Billion in Year 1, $957B Over 10-years

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Liz Rose | 202-355-3559 | rose@iwpr.org Washington, DC —New analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research shows childcare investments proposed in the American Families Plan will save families $96 Billion in Year 1 and $957 Billion over 10-years. Families in [...]

April 29, 2021|Categories: IWPR, Press Releases|Tags: American Families Plan, Biden Administration, Child Care|

Biden’s plan would revolutionize American family life
Biden’s plan would revolutionize American family life

Biden’s plan would revolutionize American family life

By Ana Campoy President Joe Biden released his American Families Plan today, a $1.8 trillion package that promises nothing short of rewriting the US’s social contract. If passed, it would insert the government into parts of American life that politicians before him have purposefully avoided, [...]

April 29, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: American Families Plan, Child Care, COVID-19, Paid Leave, Quartz|

Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College
Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College

Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College

The Biden administration has proposed the next big bill on their economic agenda: a $1.8 trillion spending and tax proposal to fund paid family and medical leave, childcare, tuition-free community college, and a variety of other programs. The “American Families Plan” comes on the heels [...]

April 29, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: American Families Plan, COVID-19, Paid Leave, The Takeaway, WNYC Studios, Working Mothers|

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Survey: Moms Want More Than Breakfast in Bed This Mother’s Day

New IWPR National Survey Shows That This Mother’s Day, What Women Want Is: Child Care, Paid Family Leave, and Good Jobs

The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag

Biden’s Proposed Child Care Plan Will Save Families $96 Billion in Year 1, $957B Over 10-years

Biden’s plan would revolutionize American family life

Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College

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