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For the past seven months, as Congress has been playing politics with funding to prevent and treat Zika, taking summer vacation, and ignoring the pleadings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – the…

When he pushed for passage of a ban on federal funding for abortion that would later bear his name, the late Rep. Henry Hyde was not shy about his ambition to restrict all women’s ability to…

Although there was some good news in the Census report on poverty that was released this week, there are still areas of concern for many women. Women as a group saw a decrease in poverty between…

Last week marked the six month anniversary of President Obama nominating Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has lacked a ninth Justice for seven months, since Justice Scalia’s death, but to date, Republican…

While the 2015 Census Bureau Data showed that many American families are experiencing real economic gains, the data also paint a picture of women’s economic lives that continues to be of concern. Women overall make just 80…

For several months now, we both have watched with alarm and admiration as a growing number of Native Americans have been camping out on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota to peacefully protest the…

Today we observe Native American Women’s Equal Pay Day, marking the symbolic day this year to which Native American women have to work to catch up to the earnings of their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts last…

In 2014, ninety-one percent of schools reported zero instances of rape on their campuses. Let me repeat: ninety-one percent of schools stated that they had zero rapes occur on or near campus in the year 2014.…

Millions of working families struggle with the high cost of child care, so it’s not surprising that child care has been a focus of the presidential campaigns. Yesterday, Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump introduced a paid leave…

The Obama administration just released a proposed rule that would prevent states from defunding critical family planning providers. How You Might Ask? The short of it is, for over forty years the Title X family planning…

The wage gap numbers for 2015 are in: overall, women working full time, year round in the United States earned a paltry 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man. The wage gap for many…

Today, the Census Bureau released data showing that many Americans are finally starting to make real economic gains in what has been an uneven economic recovery. The overall poverty rate in 2015 fell from 1.2 percentage…