FACT SHEET | The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation, and includes benefits that are critically important for pregnant women and new parents. Thanks to the ACA, most plans now ensure coverage for the health services...
A Consumer’s Guide to Choosing and Using Health Insurance
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation. In the more than six years since its passage, it has made more affordable, comprehensive health insurance coverage available to millions of consumers. About 20 million people...
Paid Leave Means A Stronger Hawaii
FACT SHEET | The people of Oregon urgently need a national paid family and medical leave program
Immigrant Moms and Babies Are Being Denied Health Care
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: Many immigrants are denied access to health care, leaving moms and babies at risk.
Higher Temperatures Hurt Moms and Babies
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: Our climate is getting hotter and it risks the health of moms and babies.
Paid Leave Is Essential for Healthy Moms and Babies
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: The lack of national paid leave compromises the health and well-being of pregnant people and their infants.
Intimate Partner Violence Endangers Pregnant People and Their Infants
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: Violence against pregnant people inflicts lasting harm on them and their babies.
Homelessness Hurts Moms And Babies
MOMS & BABIES | The Problem: The homelessness crisis is worsening and imperils pregnant people and their infants.
Choosing Health Equity: Understanding Decision Points in Policy and Practice
RESOURCE | Systemic racism is a fundamental, multilevel driver of pervasive health inequities in the United States. This tool is designed to support people in recognizing these decision points and in choosing health equity – whatever and whenever their role may be in...
Choosing Health Equity: Resource Directory
A guide to assessing whether research and policy advances health equity
Called to Care: A Racially Just Recovery Demands Paid Family and Medical Leave
ISSUE BRIEF | This updated brief shows how the lack of national paid leave has exacerbated harms to the health and economic lives of people of color, particularly women, before and during the pandemic.
Called to Care: Quotes from Congress
Quotes from Members of Congress
Called to Care: A Summary
The National Partnership recently released a brief, which finds that the lack of national paid leave has exacerbated harms to the health and economic lives of people of color, particularly women, before and during the pandemic.
Coalition PWFA House Ed and Labor 3.24.21
Adressing the Maternal Health Crisis
Oral Testimony of Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH, Director for Maternal Health at the National Partnership for Women & Families before the U.S. House of Representatives House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related...
NPWF Statement for the Record: PWFA + PFA 3.18.21
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models Federal Policymakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
ISSUE BRIEF | Federal policymakers can play an essential role in advancing these successful, high-value models of maternity care.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Recommendations for Congress
RECOMMENDATIONS | Congress can play a pivotal role in addressing the maternal health crisis and supporting evidence-based models that improve the health of mothers and infants — particularly in communities that are suffering from deep structural inequities.
NPWF Statement for the Record: Minimum Wage 3.3.21
Letter to Congress in strong support for H.R. 603, the Raise the Wage Act of 2021.
Voters Show Bipartisan Support for Permanent Paid Sick Days and Paid Family and Medical Leave
POLLING | Emergency paid sick days and paid family leave protections provided under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act will expire in December 2020, despite the majority of voters facing expanded or continuing caregiving needs during the pandemic.
