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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.
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.
We’re in a She-cession
The economic recession caused by Covid-19 has disproportionately affected women, especially women of color. IWPR President/CEO Nicole Mason joins CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction podcast for a discussion on how the pandemic has exposed gaps in our childcare and employment systems.
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.
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.
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 [...]