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NWLC In The Press

2017 is shaping up to be a banner year for anti-LGBT discrimination

  • Los Angeles Times
Lambda Legal reports that over half of LGBT individuals claim to have experienced discrimination from a healthcare provider. Meanwhile, more than a quarter of trans respondents told the National Women’s Law Center in 2014 that...

Children, parents, U.S. suffer because quality, affordable child care is lacking

  • The Washington Post
“So few children receive child-care subsidies … because we fail to recognize that child care is a basic,” said Helen Blank, the National Women’s Law Center’s child care and early learning director.

Wealthy Maryland is poor in child-care subsidies

  • Wealthy Maryland is poor in child-care subsidies
The National Women’s Law Center, which produces an annual report on child-care assistance in each state, found that Maryland also has the nation’s lowest income threshold for parents to qualify for subsidies, meaning only the...

For SCOTUS in 2017, New Cases, New Challenges and an Old Problem

  • U.S. News & World Report
As a result, experts say, the court has been highly selective about the cases it's planning to hear; only one of three high-profile cases has actually been scheduled for arguments in 2017. And until the...

Pregnancy centers win early victory against Illinois abortion info law

  • Chicago Tribune
Illinois' law allowing clinics to refuse to perform abortions is one of the broadest laws of its kind in the country, said Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the Washington, D.C.-based...

Single Moms Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Child Care and Getting an Education

  • New York Magazine
Amina isn’t wrong. Helen Blank, National Women’s Law Center’s Director of Child Care and Early Learning, said the misconception is that “many moms do need to work and that, wrongly, school is a luxury,” which...