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How Trump is deploying multiple agencies to set education policy

As a result of the quietly proposed policy changes, colleges receiving Energy Department grants would no longer, among other things: Be permitted to proactively “overcome the effects of conditions that resulted in limited participation therein...

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...