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NPWF Condemns Partisan Effort To Weaken Pregnant Worker Protections

Regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would protect 2.8 million pregnant workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2024 – The National Partnership for Women & Families is calling out the recent partisan lawsuit led by 17 states to...

NPWF Releases Recommendations to End the Poverty Trap for Disabled Women

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2024 – Today, the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) announced the release of two new installments of the “Disability Economic Justice Systems Transformation Guide.” The report on wealth building, timed to...

Overtime Rule Would Put More Money in the Pockets of Working Women

Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 23, 2024 – Today, the Biden administration published a final rule to support higher pay and better work-family balance for workers by...

NEWS: The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

The Supreme Court’s Likely to Make it More Dangerous to be Pregnant in a Red State Vox, April 24, 2024 A federal law requires most US hospitals to provide an abortion to patients experiencing a medical emergency if an abortion is the proper medical treatment for that...

What States Stand to Gain From a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program

This Care Workers Recognition Month, advocates across the country are calling for action on policies that support our paid and unpaid caregivers – including paid family and medical leave. 14 states, including the District of Columbia, have already stepped up to...

Lawsuits Seek to Weaken Protections for Abortion Access in Emergencies

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) has recently come to the forefront in the abortion fight. Enacted by Congress in 1986, EMTALA requires U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare funding to give “necessary stabilizing treatment” to people in...

Systems Transformation Guide to Disability Economic Justice: Income, Wealth Building and Basic Necessities

REPORT | This report addresses the barriers that disabled women face to building wealth, as well as put forth policy proposals that will help address these concerns.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Women and the Wage Gap

FACT SHEET | A look at the wage gap for Asian American and Pacific Islander women by ethnic subgroup, and what that gap means for them and their families.

Dobbs’ Erosion of the Health Care Workforce: Harms to Providers and Patients

ISSUE BRIEF | The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and extreme abortion bans and restrictions passed by states even prior to then, have had far reaching impacts on health care providers and the communities they care for.

Rachel Lyons

Dispatch from Denver: “Where are We Going to Eat?”

by Rachel Lyons | Oct 20, 2011 | Paid Sick Days

One of the first questions I asked when I hit the ground here in Denver was “Where are we going to eat?”

Dispatch from Denver: Eddy and Maria

by Rachel Lyons | Oct 18, 2011 | Paid Sick Days

Over the weekend, Sara and I delivered lawn signs to nearly every corner of Denver.

Dispatch from Denver: We’re on TV!

by Rachel Lyons | Oct 18, 2011 | Paid Sick Days

Hello again! I wanted to send a quick note to let you know that the Campaign for a Healthy Denver is on TV!

Dispatch from Denver: Krista’s Story

by Rachel Lyons | Oct 17, 2011 | Paid Sick Days

Hello from the Mile High City! This is rlyons@nationalpartnership.org, work and family government affairs manager at the National Partnership, reporting live from Denver — home of the Broncos, the unsinkable Molly Brown and, hopefully, the fourth citywide paid sick days law.

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