Biden’s Tax Plan Includes Paid Leave and Reducing Child-Care Costs for Parents
By Julia Carpenter On Wednesday, President Biden announced the $1.8 [...]
Free Community College Proposed in the American Families Plan Will Benefit Student Parents and Families With Low Incomes For Generations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 28, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber [...]
Most new parents have 0 days of paid leave. Everyone could have 12 weeks under Biden’s plan.
By Caroline Kitchener Every two years, like clockwork, federal lawmakers [...]
Working Families Need Bold Child Care Solutions – This Reintroduced Bill Could Be the First Step
For the first time in half a century, the US [...]
The pandemic gave parents the chance to work from home. Now they don’t want to give it up.
By Ellen McCarthy Katy Clark left the house every morning [...]
Trabajadoras domésticas buscan empleo durante la pandemia en EE.UU.
En EE.UU. las mujeres, sobre todo de origen hispano, se [...]
The Pandemic Worsened Inequities for Working Women. What Now?
By Christine Smith “All this data that we've seen in [...]
The Student Parent Equity Imperative: Guidance for the Biden-Harris Administration
As the Biden-Harris administration seeks to hasten the country’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, reforming the U.S. higher education system to ensure equitable access and attainment for all adults is more important than ever. The pandemic has disproportionately increased the caregiving, financial, and emotional burdens on student parents and their families—most of whom are mothers, students of color, adult and working learners, students with low incomes, and first-generation students [...]
Young Women Are Dropping Out of School and Work. Is Caregiving the Culprit?
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A year into the pandemic, there [...]
Young Women in the “She-cession”: Centering the Experience of Young Women of Color
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated deep-seated inequalities in the society, [...]
