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A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion – 404 Media

May 29, 2025 |

“Ashley Emery, senior policy analyst in reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families, told 404 Media ‘The risks of this intrusive government monitoring cannot be overstated: law enforcement could deploy this surveillance technology to target and try to build cases against pregnant people who travel for abortion care and those who help them. This incident is undeniably a harbinger of more AI-enabled reproductive surveillance and investigations to come. Especially for women of color who are already over-surveilled and over-policed, the stakes couldn’t be higher.'”

The GOP Is About To Make It Even Harder To Have Kids – HuffPost

May 23, 2025 |

“’It’s the largest proposed cut to Medicaid in its 60-year history,’ said Sarah Coombs, the director for health system transformation at the National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting reproductive health and rights. ‘If this bill passes, the effects are so pervasive I think it will be significantly hard to come back from it.'”

House Republican Plan Would Inflict Harm and Chaos for Millions of Women and Families

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.

Republicans’ Paid Leave Tax Credit Continues to Miss the Mark for Families

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.

Jenna Skinner Scanlan and Emma Shapiro Join National Partnership’s Board

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.

Energy & Commerce Committee Plan Would Be a Disastrous Cut in Care for 13.7 Million People

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.

Women’s Advocacy Groups Join Forces to Denounce EEOC Leader’s Hostility Toward LGBTQI+ Rights

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.”

Dismantling OFCCP Will Have Far-Reaching Repercussions for Civil Rights, Disabled Workers and Veterans

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.

Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET

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.'”

Our Shared Experience of Being Under Attack – The Progressive Magazine

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.'”

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Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families Today, President Trump signed the Republican budget bill that will undermine the health and economic security of millions of people who rely on essential programs like Medicaid...

Republican Budget Bill Will Harm Millions of Women and Families

Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families The Senate has voted to advance a Republican Budget Bill that would undermine the health and economic security of 17 million people who rely on essential programs like Medicaid...

Unpaid Caregiving in the U.S. Valued at More Than $1.1 Trillion, Per New Analysis

Women Do a Majority of Unpaid Care Work, With Each Woman Spending Nearly 300 Hours per Year on Caregiving WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 26, 2025 – A new analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) finds that if Americans who provide care...

NEWS: The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net

The Quiet Collapse of America's Reproductive Health Safety Net CBS News, October 27, 2025 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs, which administers the Title X Family Planning Program, has been effectively shut down. At the same...

NEWS: Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention

Pregnant Women Report Medical Neglect in ICE Detention, Rights Groups Say The Guardian, October 22, 2025 Pregnant women have reported bleeding, miscarriages, being shackled and other instances of medical neglect while in US immigration custody, according to a group of...

NEWS: Trump administration decimates birth control office in layoffs

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs The New York Times, October 15, 2025 The decimation of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs – part of a larger effort by President Donald Trump to fire federal...

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...

Nearly 73 Million Workers Live in States That Block Local Communities from Making Progress on Paid Sick Days

ISSUE BRIEF | Lawmakers in 18 states across the country – the majority of which are in the South – fail to guarantee that workers can earn paid sick days, and at the same time block local governments from setting their own standards for local workers, families and...