IWPR Newsletter: Spring 2010
Women's and Men's Employment and Unemployment; IWPR Co-Sponsors Congressional briefing on TANF Reauthorization: End Poverty, Not Welfare; and more articles.
Valuing Good Health in Connecticut: The Costs and Benefits of Paid Sick Days
Policymakers across the country are increasingly interested in ensuring that workers have paid sick days.
Are Women Now Half the Labor Force? The Truth about Women and Equal Participation in the Labor Force
For more than a year the news media have been tracking the moment when women might become half the labor force. In spring 2009, it was said it might happen in the next few months, by summer it was said maybe it would happen in the fall.
Who Are Social Security Beneficiaries? (Updated)
Social Security – formally called Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) – is a social insurance program that provides benefits to workers and their families upon retirement, disability, or death.
Women and Social Security: Benefit Types and Eligibility
Social Security provides monthly benefits to qualified retired and disabled workers, their family members, and survivors of deceased workers
Social Security: Vital to Retirement Security for 35 Million Women and Men
This Briefing Paper examines major sources of income for older Americans—earnings, Social Security, pensions and assets—by gender and marital status.
Focus on Lebanon Topic Brief: Social Attitudes Toward Women
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Focus on Lebanon Topic Brief: Attitudes Towards Policy Change
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Focus on Lebanon Topic Brief: Civic & Political Participation
This topic brief presents the main findings from the SWMENA survey in Lebanon on civic and political participation.
