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What’s Driving up Childbirth Costs and How Families Can Plan Ahead – InvestigateTV

What’s Driving up Childbirth Costs and How Families Can Plan Ahead – InvestigateTV

by | Apr 1, 2026 |

“The estimated out-of-pocket costs for most mothers are $2,700 with insurance, according to Erin McKay, managing director of health justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Without insurance, those costs are typically $19,000.

“McKay said the financial challenges facing parents having a child is something many families are running into.

“’Nothing in the health care system is simple. But the two main reasons that I keep coming back to with regard to the high costs of childbirth are because we are paying for care that does not improve care for moms and babies, and a scarcity of reproductive and maternal health care drives up costs,’ McKay said.”

What’s Driving up Childbirth Costs and How Families Can Plan Ahead – InvestigateTV

Paid Family Leave Receives Bipartisan Push in Ohio Senate – The Center Square

by | Mar 27, 2026 |

“Unlike the newly proposed benefits, FMLA’s primary purpose is job protection, allowing employees to take time off without fear of losing their jobs. Whether pay or short-term disability insurance is offered while eligible employees use FMLA varies by employer. The National Partnership for Women and Families says only about 60% of Ohioans are eligible for FMLA.

“The new bill would promise to deliver a benefit to the 77% of workers, or about 4.5 million people according to the organization, in Ohio who currently are not eligible for paid leave through their employers.

“’The lack of paid leave has devastating costs for Ohioans and their families and for the entire state’s economy by shrinking the workforce and lowering productivity, cutting workers’ incomes and harming public health amid a scarcity of reproductive and maternal health care,’ wrote the organization in February.”

What’s Driving up Childbirth Costs and How Families Can Plan Ahead – InvestigateTV

Why Paid Sick Leave Is a DEI Issue – HR Dive

by | Mar 25, 2026 |

“More than 6 million Black women, or 57% of Black women in the workforce, live in ‘pre-emption states,’ according to a March report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, A Better Balance and the 75 Million. This term describes states where laws on the books don’t mandate paid sick leave and bar local governments from passing their own paid sick day laws.

“‘Instead, [Black women] are being forced to shoulder caregiving and breadwinning responsibilities without the most basic workplace safeguards,’ Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families and co-lead of The 75 Million said in a statement. Pre-emption states are harmful for Black women and harmful overall, because Black women have some of the highest rates of labor force participation in the U.S., Frye said.

“‘Black women are disproportionately suffering from a lack of access to paid sick days, and are often forced to make impossible choices between their health and paycheck as a result,’ she added.”

What’s Driving up Childbirth Costs and How Families Can Plan Ahead – InvestigateTV

How Blue States Got Around the GOP’s Efforts to Ban Abortion in Red States – Mother Jones

by | Mar 17, 2026 |

“’So far, 22 states and Washington, DC, have created some version of shield protections; eight of those states, including New York and California, have adopted laws that explicitly protect people who provide or facilitate abortion care via telemedicine. The laws have proven to be ‘one of the strongest tools that reproductive freedom advocates have to protect abortion access in a post-Roe reality,’ says Ashley Kurzweil, a senior policy analyst at the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘It’s painfully obvious that anti-abortion extremists are targeting shield laws because they are working.’”

What’s Driving up Childbirth Costs and How Families Can Plan Ahead – InvestigateTV

State-Mandated Paid Leave Programs Now Cover Millions Of American Workers – Minnesota Reformer

by | Mar 13, 2026 |

“‘Currently, the District of Columbia and 13 states have passed laws requiring paid leave for many workers, according to a report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit that advocates for reproductive rights, health and economic justice, and workplace equality.

“‘’States have shifted the paradigm now that more than 46 million workers across the U.S. are covered by paid family and medical leave programs, pointing the way forward for the rest of the country,’ Jessica Mason, senior policy analyst at the organization, said in a news release.”

What’s Driving up Childbirth Costs and How Families Can Plan Ahead – InvestigateTV

Suspending Monthly Economic Reports Would Be Really Bad For Women of Color – POLITICO

by | Feb 3, 2026 |

“’The household survey is really the only source for intersectional employment data on a monthly basis. That means that for groups of women we and others have been watching especially closely during this period — for example, disabled women, Black women, women veterans — timely information about these groups would disappear,’ said Katherine Gallagher Robbins, a senior fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families who routinely analyzes the data. “

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