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Child care costs could be a major issue in the presidential campaign
Child care costs could be a major issue in the presidential campaign

Child care costs could be a major issue in the presidential campaign

By: Jasmine Garsd Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, announced a plan to invest $775 billion over 10 years in child care and elder care. In 2017, under the Trump administration, the child care tax credit was doubled to as much as $2,000 per [...]

July 22, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Child Care, NPR Marketplace|

Former ESPN Senior Communications Director Keri Potts Joins IWPR as Vice President, External Affairs
Former ESPN Senior Communications Director Keri Potts Joins IWPR as Vice President, External Affairs

Former ESPN Senior Communications Director Keri Potts Joins IWPR as Vice President, External Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lea Woods | 202-785-5100 | woods@iwpr.org Washington, DC—Twenty-one year communications executive Keri Potts will bring her skills and talents to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). Her past experience includes positions at Nike, the NCAA, and, for the past [...]

July 20, 2020|Categories: Press Releases|

There’s No Money In Working Anymore
There’s No Money In Working Anymore

There’s No Money In Working Anymore

By: WHIZY KIM Women, and especially women of color, also dominate in some of the lowest-paying industries. “Black and Latinx women specifically make up between 26% to 28% of those working in the service sector,” says Dr. C. Nicole Mason, president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s [...]

July 20, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Minimum Wage, Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Inequality, Refinery 29, Unemployment, Wages, Wealth Gap|

America’s child care problem is an economic problem
America’s child care problem is an economic problem

America’s child care problem is an economic problem

“Families are not okay,” one expert says. It’s making the economic crisis way worse. By: Anna North Add to that parents needing and looking for jobs: More than 11 percent of women are unemployed right now The difficulty of finding child care is already causing parents [...]

July 16, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Child Care, COVID-19, Pandemic, Unemployment, Vox|

Even in Death, Breonna Taylor Is Being Disrespected
Even in Death, Breonna Taylor Is Being Disrespected

Even in Death, Breonna Taylor Is Being Disrespected

Salau’s tragic story also underscores the extremely complicated relationship that Black women have with policing and criminalization. According to the American Psychological Association, one in four Black girls will be the victim of sexual assault by age 18, and one in five Black women is a [...]

July 9, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Bitch Media, Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Inequality, Violence Against Women|

I felt like I had to go part-time when my kids were young. This shouldn’t be the norm.
I felt like I had to go part-time when my kids were young. This shouldn’t be the norm.

I felt like I had to go part-time when my kids were young. This shouldn’t be the norm.

Mothers engage in 300 more hours of paid work per year than they did 40 years ago By: C. Nicole Mason My email read as follows: Dear Mr. C, My apologies for Charli and Parker not turning in their assignments for the week. We’re super [...]

July 9, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Breadwinner Mothers, Child Care, The Lily, Working Mothers|

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Child care costs could be a major issue in the presidential campaign

Former ESPN Senior Communications Director Keri Potts Joins IWPR as Vice President, External Affairs

There’s No Money In Working Anymore

America’s child care problem is an economic problem

Even in Death, Breonna Taylor Is Being Disrespected

I felt like I had to go part-time when my kids were young. This shouldn’t be the norm.

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