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Today, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule implementing President Obama’s 2015 Executive Order requiring federal contractors to allow their employees to earn up to seven paid sick days a year.  The U.S. is…

Today we celebrate an important new tool in the fight for equal pay announced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): annual employer reporting of pay data. Earlier this month, we learned from new Census Bureau…

This past weekend, I had the privilege of visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture during its historic opening days.  I was filled with emotion while viewing the displays reflecting the history, struggles…

nbsp; This week marks forty years of the Hyde Amendment, meaning for four decades Congress has continued to pass a policy founded on the idea that individuals living in poverty should and will have different health…

Sometimes we joke that my actual job title should be “contraception guru” because so much of my work revolves around birth control, and in particular making sure that you can get it and your insurance covers…

On Friday, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)  issued the final regulations implementing the 2014 reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). These regulations represent an important step forward for children and families.…

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…