The U.S. has long dealt with a crumbling a child care system partly due to low wages, labor burnout and a shortage of child care options for working parents. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed how deep...
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...
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...
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.
"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...
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...
