A section-by-section summary of the Healthy Families Act, which would establish a national paid sick days standard.
Repeal, Defund and Deauthorize: The 15-Year War Against the ACA
FACT SHEET | The ACA remains widely popular, with a majority of U.S. adults favoring its provisions across political lines. Yet 15 years and over 100 attempts to repeal, defund or deauthorize later, the ACA continues to face political and legislative threats.
Latina Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | The wages of Latina women are driven down by a number of current factors including gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that support family caregiving, which is still most often performed...
Reproductive Health and Data Privacy After Roe: Threats and Opportunities for State Action
ISSUE BRIEF | Health and data privacy are increasingly under threat, leaving people vulnerable to the misuse of their personal information amid the broader landscape of reproductive health and pregnancy criminalization.
Black Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | Even in states with large populations of Black women in the workforce, rampant wage disparities persist, with potentially devastating consequences for Black women and families.
Native American Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | The wages of Native women are driven down by a number of factors that they are likely to encounter in the workplace and labor market, including gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that...
At-Risk Rural Labor & Delivery Units List
LIST | The following is a list of at-risk rural hospitals with labor and delivery units identified based on analysis by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina.
The Wage Gap #IRL (In Real Life) for Women of Color: Groceries, Child Care and Student Loans
FACT SHEET | Women of color in the United States experience the nation's persistent and pervasive gender wage gap most severely. U.S. Census Bureau data reveal the size of that gap by race.
America’s Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | Overall, women in the United States are paid 75 cents for every dollar paid to men. The wage gap widened in 2023 from 2022 – the first time this has happened since 2003. When women lose income, their economic security and that of their families is...
FAMILY Act Open Letter from National and State Organizations
LETTER | On behalf of the undersigned organizations and the tens of millions of working families we represent, we urge members of Congress to become a co-sponsor of the Family And Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY) Act.
The Healthy Families Act Fact Sheet
FACT SHEET | The Healthy Families Act would set a national paid sick days standard – a critical step toward meeting the health and financial needs of working families.
Paid Sick Days Are Good for Business
FACT SHEET | Businesses benefit when their employees have access to paid sick days. When sick workers are able to stay home to recover, it lessens the risk of contagion, making workplaces healthier and employees more productive.
Paid Sick Days Improve Public Health
FACT SHEET | Every day, millions of U.S. workers face an impossible choice when they are sick: stay home and risk their economic security or go to work and risk their health and the public’s health. The evidence is clear: When workers have access to paid sick days,...
The History of Executive Order 11246
FACT SHEET | For nearly 90 years, presidential executive orders have shaped the fight for equal employment opportunity in federal contracting. This timeline outlines the critical moments that built, expanded and ultimately eliminated Executive Order 11246.
House GOP Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Bills Threaten Women’s Ability to Thrive
FACT SHEET | House Republican leaders make their priorities clear: undoing long-standing protections for women in the workplace, slashing critical women's health programs and further restricting access to abortion and reproductive health services.
Current Paid Sick Days Laws
FACT SHEET | A list of all the paid sick days laws that are or will soon be in effect in the United States.
Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act (The FAMILY Act) Section-by-Section
A section-by-section summary of the Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, a comprehensive national program that helps meet the needs of new parents and people with serious personal or family health issues.
Pennsylvania Veterans Social Security and Supplemental Security Income
FACT SHEET | Fifty-five percent of Pennsylvania veterans – 360,600 vets – receive income from Social Security, such as retirement benefits or disability benefits. About 18,200 veterans receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which supports low-income people with...
Virginia Veterans Social Security and Supplemental Security Income
FACT SHEET | Thirty-seven percent of Virginia veterans – 233,900 vets – receive income from Social Security, such as retirement benefits or disability benefits. About 10,600 veterans receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which supports low-income people with...
Missed Opportunities to Expand Paid Leave and Caregiving Supports Through the Tax Code
ISSUE BRIEF | Rather than passing a comprehensive bill to create a national paid family and medical leave program, Congress's reconciliation bill uses a much narrower, business-focused tax code approach to extend a corporate tax credit that has failed working families.
