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Donald Trump’s EEOC Fails To Do Its Job To Combat Discrimination by Doing Away With Much-Needed Guidance on Workplace Harassment

Jan 22, 2026 |

“The National Partnership strongly condemns the EEOC’s rescission of its guidance on harassment. The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 called for the creation of the EEOC to enforce critical civil rights protections against employment discrimination to ensure that working people were treated fairly, and the decision to eliminate necessary guidance on harassment to help employers and workers is completely contrary to everything the agency is supposed to stand for.”

One Year In: 53 Ways the Second Trump Administration Is Harming Women and Families – Ms. Magazine

Jan 20, 2026 |

“In the first year of the second Trump administration, there has been a barrage of harmful executive orders, the appointment of dangerous and unqualified political nominees, and the unprecedented firing of federal employees, along with restructuring or near elimination of many federal agencies.”

Sen. Patty Murray: GOP Abortion Pill Hearing Is “Really About” a Nationwide Ban – Mother Jones

Jan 14, 2026 |

“A National Partnership for Women & Families analysis from June warned that 131 rural hospitals with labor and delivery units are at risk of closing altogether due to Republican-led cuts to Medicaid through President Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’”

Some Americans Say They’ll Go Without Health Insurance as ACA Rates Spike – CBS News

Jan 12, 2026 |

“Since its introduction in 2010, the ACA has been instrumental in cutting the share of uninsured Americans from approximately 15% to 8%, according to Nima Sheth, vice president of health justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit advocacy group.”

Trump Administration Implements Its First National Abortion Ban – Jezebel

Dec 26, 2025 |

“Further, with more than a dozen states having a near or total abortion ban, the VA remained the last place for veterans to receive abortion services—and most of these abortion-banned states are where more than half of all women veterans live, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families.”

New Report Shows “Voluntary Paid Leave” Programs Don’t Live Up to the Hype

Dec 17, 2025 |

As states prepare for the 2026 legislative sessions, the National Partnership for Women & Families and New America’s Better Life Lab released new research today, evaluating private insurance–based paid family and medical leave laws.

Medical Bias Against Pregnant Black Women Is Going Viral, but It Is not New – URL Media

Dec 9, 2025 |

“While a lot of the states have the goal of reducing maternal health disparities and know the disproportionate impact on Black birthing people in particular,” said Amani Echols, lead author of the analysis and Senior Manager of Maternal and Infant Health at NPWF.

Age Verification Is Locking Trans People Out of the Internet – Tech Policy Press

Dec 8, 2025 |

“The National Partnership for Women & Families points out that, ‘Sensitive personal records have already been used to prosecute reproductive health activities and adverse pregnancy outcomes like stillbirths and miscarriages.'”

Will a Lapse in ACA Subsidies Imperil Black Maternal Health? – POLITICO

Dec 5, 2025 |

“As Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership on Women & Families, sees it, the treatment Wells received was reprehensible. ‘This was not a new story. It is an old story, and it is something that is entirely preventable, and that is even more frustrating.’”

Privacy Concerns Linger in Reproductive Health Care Despite HIPAA Lawsuit’s Dismissal – News From the States

Dec 4, 2025 |

“Ashley Kurzweil, senior policy analyst for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families, said the dual threat that Paxton’s lawsuit presented was alarming on a much wider scale than just reproductive health care, so it is a relief that the case is dismissed.”

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Donald Trump’s EEOC Fails To Do Its Job To Combat Discrimination by Doing Away With Much-Needed Guidance on Workplace Harassment

One Year In: 53 Ways the Second Trump Administration Is Harming Women and Families – Ms. Magazine

Sen. Patty Murray: GOP Abortion Pill Hearing Is “Really About” a Nationwide Ban – Mother Jones

Some Americans Say They’ll Go Without Health Insurance as ACA Rates Spike – CBS News

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Medical Bias Against Pregnant Black Women Is Going Viral, but It Is not New – URL Media

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Will a Lapse in ACA Subsidies Imperil Black Maternal Health? – POLITICO

Privacy Concerns Linger in Reproductive Health Care Despite HIPAA Lawsuit’s Dismissal – News From the States

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One-Third of Working People Are Now Covered by State Paid Leave

National Partnership for Women & Families Calls for National Paid Sick Days Through Support of Healthy Families Act

NPWF Relaunches AdvancingPaidLeave.org To Highlight the Business Case for Supporting Paid Leave

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