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Black Unemployment Rate Is Rising, But Here’s Why The Rest of the Country Will Pay Big Time

Black people make up around 18 percent of the current federal workforce, according to a May National Women’s Law Center report. And they just so happen to be concentrated in the departments experiencing the most...

Dystopian Realities: The Handmaid’s Tale and Project 2025

Quoting the National Women's Law Center, which reviewed Project 2025: Project 2025 seeks to impose a hierarchical, gendered, patriarchal version of society. It is particularly focused on enforcing a vision of the family that relies...

DOJ Must Cut Conditions on Domestic Violence Grants for Now

The nonprofits presented examples that some of their work—such as providing services to transgender victims—could arguably violate the challenged conditions and potentially open them up to False Claims Act liability. And the government’s declaration that...

‘If You’re Not Centering the People Who Are Most Impacted, Your Policy Solution Will Fall Apart’: Gaylynn Burroughs Is Fighting for Economic Justice at the Intersections

[Gaylynn] Burroughs, the vice president of education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center and a contributor to Ms., connected the dots between poverty, policy and culture change in the latest episode of...

Trump admin eyes insurance cuts to hospitals offering trans care for youth

Stakeholders — including the National Women's Law Center and the Illinois attorney general's office, both which have advocated for gender-affirming care for youth — have scheduled meetings with administration officials to discuss the policy before...

Trump cuts threaten access to birth control for millions of women

It's not only Title X funds that are jeopardizing access to contraception, says Kimi Chernoby, an attorney with the National Women's Law Center. She points to cuts to Medicaid included in the Republican spending bill...