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NWLC In The Press

Black Women See Rising Unemployment Rates As Rest of Labor Market Plateaus

Kate Bahn, chief economist at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, highlighted the double bind: “Black women are overrepresented among those jobs, but somehow, that’s still not enough to overcome the bigger structural barriers.” Jasmine...

Twin Cities day cares lose workers after Trump administration cancels immigration program

The immigration changes might increase the worker shortage. A recent National Women’s Law Center study found that about 20% of early educators in the U.S. are immigrant women.

Trump administration blocks immigrants access to Head Start, adult education programs

"This administration continues to focus its energies on bullying and harming the most vulnerable populations and pushing its egregious anti-immigrant agenda,” said Emily Martin, chief program officer at the National Women’s Law Center, in a...

Black Women Labor Leaders Sound The Alarm On The Workforce Of Tomorrow

At the Black Global Economic Forum’s session titled “Work, Wealth, and the Workforce of Tomorrow: Innovation, Unions, and Black Economic Mobility,” Ebony McMorris, AURN White House correspondent, guided a potent conversation featuring SEIU President April...

Donald Trump Rolls Back LGBTQ+ Discrimination Policy

Brian Dittmeier, director of LGBTQI+ equality at the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), said in a July 9 statement: "Fresh off cutting food assistance for millions of Americans, the Trump administration is finding new ways...

USDA reverses guidance protecting LGBTQ students against discrimination in school meals

The National Women's Law Center castigated the move. "The Trump administration is encouraging schools to turn the other way as marginalized youth face discrimination in the lunch line," Brian Dittmeier, NWLC's director of LGBTQI+ equality,...