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Mar 29, 2018 |
The bill would also make caregivers of a sibling or grandchild eligible. It would increase the amount that people who [earn] less than double the minimum wage can receive when claiming temporary caregiver insurance.
Mar 23, 2018 |
One positive aspect of so many millennials taking on caregiving responsibilities, experts say, is that it may force lawmakers and companies to start paying attention.
Mar 23, 2018 |
Jersey City municipal workers will be eligible for paid parental leave, thanks to an executive order signed by Mayor Steve Fulop.
Mar 21, 2018 |
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Mar 20, 2018 |
If Utah offered paid family leave, [Jasmine] Parker says she’d have a buffer — time to deal with crises in her own immediate family, time for a vacation, time to just breathe. “It would be amazing,” she says. “I think I’m probably like a lot of people. Sometimes, it feels pretty overwhelming.”
Mar 20, 2018 |
[Judith] Lichtman is a senior adviser to the National Partnership for Women & Families. She says [Roger] Severino’s actions … suggest he intends to protect people who want to discriminate against women who want birth control or abortions, which she points out are legal health care services.
Mar 20, 2018 |
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Mar 16, 2018 |
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families, on the Passing of Rep. Louise Slaughter
Mar 15, 2018 |
We should not be asking families to choose between losing their income and caring for family members when they are ill.
Mar 7, 2018 |
At this time when the Trump administration is using every lever at its disposal to limit women’s access to reproductive health care and roll back our rights, states too are passing laws that disregard science and evidence-based policies in ways that threaten...
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“For too long discrimination against people who are LGBTQ has been allowed in our nation’s workplaces, public spaces, schools, housing and elsewhere due to gaps in our civil rights laws. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal to discriminate on the...
"Each woman should have unfettered access to the comprehensive reproductive health care they need, no matter how much they earn, where they live or where they get their health insurance. The EACH Woman Act would ensure that reality for the millions of women that have...
“If a budget is a moral document, then President Trump’s budget is an immoral and cruel outline designed to cut resources for family supporting programs in order to fund an inhumane border wall that would separate families. It is a one-two punch for those...
Hello, You’ve reached The National Partnership for Women & Families during our first-ever Care Week. As part of our commitment to creating a culture of employee well-being, from August 28-September 4, our office is closed to allow our employees to collectively...
How Abortion Bans Are Undercutting Efforts to Prevent Domestic Violence The 19th, November 13, 2023 As more abortion bans have gone into effect across the country, it has become far more difficult to perform a standard element of gynecological care: screening patients...
You've heard it here before: women are paid 78 cents for every dollar paid to men and this wage gap heavily impacts women of color. But what you may not realize is that the gender wage gap continues to impact women beyond their working years. We dug into the data to...
As families across the United States prepare for a new school year, work-family advocates have a timely opportunity to draw attention to the need for paid sick time. This document includes ideas for back-to-school actions concerning paid sick time, as well as examples...
NPWF comment letter on QPP 2018 NPRM
