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NWLC In The Press

How Obama Took An Existing Feminist Law And Made It Even Stronger

“Obviously we’re concerned there will be a rollback in enforcement,” said Neena Chaudhry, director of education and senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington. “There’s a lot of understandable anxiety based on...

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

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

“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

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

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

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...