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May 22, 2025 |
The House of Representatives voted today to advance a budget reconciliation package that would undermine the health and economic security of tens of millions of people who rely on essential programs like Medicaid, the ACA, SNAP, and the Child Tax Credit, all to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.
May 14, 2025 |
More than 100 million people do not have paid family leave through their jobs. For far too long, these workers – both women and men –– have had to choose: go to work and continue earning a paycheck to pay bills and keep food on the table – or stay home to care for a sick loved one.
May 13, 2025 |
Today the National Partnership for Women & Families announced the additions of Jenna Skinner Scanlan and Emma Shapiro to the Board of Directors.
May 13, 2025 |
The National Partnership for Women & Families strongly condemns the proposal released by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee to gut Medicaid as part of a broader reconciliation package to fund tax cuts for billion dollar corporations and the ultra wealthy.
Apr 24, 2025 |
“Lucas’ choice for chief of staff, Shannon Royce – who has publicly expressed hostility to LGBTQI+ rights – reflects just the latest example of how the agency has abandoned its mission to protect all workers from unlawful employment discrimination.”
Apr 17, 2025 |
The DOGE mandate to cut the vast majority of OFCCP employees and shuttering of most OFCCP field offices is an assault on the civil rights of America’s workers, particularly disabled workers and veterans.
Apr 16, 2025 |
“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.'”
Apr 16, 2025 |
“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.'”
Apr 15, 2025 |
“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.'”
Apr 12, 2025 |
“Young women in particular have a better feel for something going south,” says Anwesha Majumder, economist at the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit organization. When their spending starts pulling back, she says, “it’s possible that things will quickly spiral for the economy as a whole.”
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Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 22, 2025 – "Today, the House of Representatives voted to advance a budget reconciliation package that would undermine the health and economic...
Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 14, 2025 – “More than 100 million people do not have paid family leave through their jobs. For far too long, these workers – both women...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 13, 2025 – Today, the National Partnership for Women & Families announced the additions of Jenna Skinner Scanlan and Emma Shapiro to the Board of Directors. Both were appointed during the April Board meeting. Skinner Scanlan joins...
Medicaid gives people access to essential health care and supports when they need it most, but enormous Republican-proposed cuts would jeopardize the health of over 70 million people, including children, pregnant people, older adults, people with disabilities and...
A Brain-Dead Woman’s Pregnancy Raises Questions About Georgia’s Abortion Law NPR, May 21, 2025 “Adriana Smith, a 30 year-old nurse and mother, was about nine weeks pregnant in February when doctors declared her brain dead after she suffered a medical emergency. But...
Americans are witnessing in real-time a full-throated assault on freedom and democracy, perhaps the most aggressive roll-back of civil rights protections in generations. Using loosely defined notions of “government efficiency,” Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their new...
FACT SHEET | A fact sheet on legislation that would establish a national paid family and medical leave insurance program: the Family And Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act).
FACT SHEET | Key facts and stats on paid family and medical leave
FACT SHEET | Leading business owners and managers recognize that every worker will at some point need time off to attend to health or family issues.
