National Partnership Staff
Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

“Moreover, as Rolonda Donelson powerfully observed in a recent National Partnership for Women & Families blog post, it is problematic to cast abortion as a legally cognizable source of injury when ‘the truth is that those declines are much more likely caused by the states themselves… and their policy shortcomings.’ Thus, ‘characterizing abortion as a ‘harm’ to the state increases misogyny and refuses to hold states accountable for the failures they have caused by not providing social support to children and families already in existence.'”

Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

Our Shared Experience of Being Under Attack – The Progressive Magazine

“This is visible in Trump’s policies, Sharita Gruberg, vice president for economic justice at the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF), explains to me. The Executive Order, she says, allows members of the Trump Administration ‘to review anything that has gender in it.’ The public face was the attack on trans people, but the implementation goes beyond, ‘trying to claw back gender equity projects and work and data.'”

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‘Make Motherhood Great Again’: Pronatalism Finds a Comfortable Home in the Trump Administration – Ms. Magazine

“Moreover, as Rolonda Donelson powerfully observed in a recent National Partnership for Women & Families blog post, it is problematic to cast abortion as a legally cognizable source of injury when ‘the truth is that those declines are much more likely caused by the states themselves… and their policy shortcomings.’ Thus, ‘characterizing abortion as a ‘harm’ to the state increases misogyny and refuses to hold states accountable for the failures they have caused by not providing social support to children and families already in existence.'”

Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

17 states want to end an abortion privacy rule. A federal judge is questioning HIPAA itself. – Stateline

“The threats to the 2000 privacy rule would be a seismic shift that could erode patients’ trust entirely in their providers and dissuade them from wanting to seek out health care and be transparent about their symptoms,” said Ashley Emery, a senior policy analyst for the nonprofit Partnership for Women and Families. “A law enforcement officer could pressure a psychiatrist to share patient notes from therapy sessions without a subpoena, without a warrant, if the 2000 privacy rule is invalidated.”

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Women already earn less. Trump’s labor cuts could make the pay gap easier to hide. – The 19th

“‘It’s not unusual to have different emphases across Republican and Democratic administrations, different levels of enforcement,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, a national nonpartisan organization that advocates for family policy. ‘What’s different this time around, unlike the first Trump administration and [any other] since [former President Lyndon B.] Johnson’s administration, they have sought to eliminate the underlying executive actions and infrastructure that is critical to doing robust enforcement.'”

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‘You never catch up.’ How caring for their family widens the pay gap for women – USA Today

“‘…That’s because entry-level positions tend to have smaller salary ranges to begin with. But over time, women are more likely to take breaks from their careers to care for their families, and less likely to get promoted at work. That’s true across industries and regardless of educational background, said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.”

Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

More states requiring paid medical or sick leave – AP News

“Advocates say providing paid sick time can reduce the spread of disease. It also can improve production by cutting down on ‘presenteeism,’ or people showing up for work sick and unable to focus on their jobs, said Jessica Mason, a senior policy analyst with the National Partnership. … Mason says interest in paid leave has been building since the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘The pandemic really brought to the forefront of everyone’s mind how important paid sick leave is,’ she said.”

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Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight – The Guardian

“‘I think part of the reason that so many of us came to Selma is because we really draw inspiration in people who had no reason really to believe that they could get freedom,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. ‘They were facing what may have looked like an all-powerful force, but they had a faith and desire to work for something bigger and better, and I think we’re here because we have that same spirit.'”

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Senators renew push for paid leave tax credit, but experts say it doesn’t reach most workers – The 19th

“We know that’s an investment that works and that’s sustainable and that reaches low-income workers,” said Jessica Mason, senior policy analyst at the National Partnership for Women and Families. “To see this distracting conversation at the federal level, to try to throw good money after bad… just really feels like a lot of wasted time and effort.”

Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

$738,000 NICU bill—this mom’s story of financial shock shows why U.S. healthcare is failing families – Motherly

“Janice’s story isn’t just about one outrageous bill—it’s part of a larger crisis that advocacy groups like March for Moms and The National Partnership for Women & Families are fighting to change. Additionally, legislative efforts like the Momnibus Act aim to address disparities in maternal healthcare costs and outcomes.”

Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

Economists are trying to make sense of the widening post-COVID gender wage gap in the United States – Milwaukee Independent

“Hispanic women in particular illustrate the complexities of this moment. They were the only demographic group of women overall whose wage gap narrowed marginally between 2022 and 2023 in comparison to white men working full time, according to Census Bureau data analyzed by both the National Women’s Law Center and the National Partnership for Women and Families, research and advocacy groups. For Black women and Asian women, the wage gap widened, and for white women, it stayed the same.”

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Health Care Coverage Could Be Expanded To Millions of Americans – Newsweek

“The bill, titled Covering Outstanding Vulnerable Expansion-Eligible Residents Now (COVER Now), would provide options for states that have refused the expansion of Medicaid. […] The bill is endorsed by a number of prominent health organizations including UnidosUS, Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, National Partnership for Women & Families, American Diabetes Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Multiple Sclerosis Society.”