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Less Coverage, more uninsured: Here’s what the latest Republican healthcare plan could mean for women

“Both bills are nothing short of an all-out attack on women’s health,” said Janel George, director of federal reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center.

Making Equal Pay Truly Equal

In March of this year, the National Women’s Law Center listed State Street as a leading company for eliminating unconscious bias in salary negotiations, hiring practices and determining promotions.

You’re Unlikely To Be Able To Afford Child Care In the U.S., & Here’s Proof

For example, according to the National Women's Law Center, at least 17 states decreased funding or eligibility for state-subsidized child care in 2010. That year, lawmakers in the Keystone State stripped its child care assistance program for...

College Lawyers Welcome New Clarity of Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights

The Trump administration’s new approach will weaken the process because the Office for Civil Rights is supposed to help students look beyond the particulars of one incident, said Alexandra Brodsky, a fellow with the National...

The Creative Way New Jersey Is Fighting the Gender Wage Gap

State Sen. Nia Gill referred to research of the state's wage gap conducted by the National Women's Law Center, which estimates that white working women in New Jersey earn 82 cents to every dollar earned by white...

Harry Potter at 20: How J.K. Rowling went from welfare to billion-dollar wizards

And, like Rowling did in her early days, those families tend to struggle financially. Households headed by single moms are far more likely to live in poverty than those headed by men or by married...