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Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult
Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult

Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult

The pandemic halted many resources that student parents need to succeed: on-campus child care centers, in-person study groups, internet access and in-person K-12 education for their kids By Sara Israelsen-Hartley SALT LAKE CITY — Kelsie Rose Kealoha doesn’t like to cry in front of her kids. [...]

September 19, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Deseret News, Pandemic, Student Parent Success Initiative SPSI, Unemployment|

Cautious Interest in College Among Working Adults
Cautious Interest in College Among Working Adults

Cautious Interest in College Among Working Adults

Working adults increasingly are interested in pursuing postsecondary education, but they are also less confident about the value of college.

September 17, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Access to Higher Education, COVID-19, Inside Higher Ed, Unemployment|

Women in President Donald Trump’s White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staffers
Women in President Donald Trump’s White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staffers

Women in President Donald Trump’s White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staffers

The gender pay gap is wider than the national pay gap and wider than the gap in the Obama White House.

September 17, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Equal Pay / Pay Equity, Pay Gap, Press EPD, The 19th|

Coronavirus crisis caused 40% of parents to change their job situation, survey finds
Coronavirus crisis caused 40% of parents to change their job situation, survey finds

Coronavirus crisis caused 40% of parents to change their job situation, survey finds

Working parents are feeling the sting of the coronavirus pandemic — and it's hitting women especially hard.

September 17, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: CNBC, COVID-19, Recession, Unemployment|

Same Gap, Different Year: IWPR says wage gap persists
Same Gap, Different Year: IWPR says wage gap persists

Same Gap, Different Year: IWPR says wage gap persists

An analysis released today by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) shows that women are still almost 40 years from reaching pay equity with men if trends continue at the current pace. Each year the wage gap persists, women fall further behind men in overall earnings and ability to build assets and wealth with a cumulative effect each year in which earnings differences continue.

September 16, 2020|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: Equal Pay / Pay Equity, Pay Gap, Race and Ethnicity, Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Inequality|

OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it
OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

Black students with children hold more student loan debt than any other group. But there are steps we can take to reduce the crippling financial burden by Nicole Lynn Lewis When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed [...]

September 16, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Access to Higher Education, Black Women, Student Loans and Debt, Student Parent Success Initiative SPSI, The Hechinger Report|

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Life was already challenging for student parents; COVID-19 made it much more difficult

Cautious Interest in College Among Working Adults

Women in President Donald Trump’s White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staffers

Coronavirus crisis caused 40% of parents to change their job situation, survey finds

Same Gap, Different Year: IWPR says wage gap persists

OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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