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NWLC In The Press

Democrats Are Finally Getting Serious About Helping Americans Balance Work and Family

“The common denominator,” said Melissa Boteach, NWLC’s vice president for income security and child care/early learning, “is money. You can’t seriously be thought to have a child care plan that addresses these principles unless you’re...

#MeToo ‘is bigger than one man’: How the Harvey Weinstein trial impacts the movement

Sharyn Tejani, director of the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, an organization that helps connect women who have faced workplace sexual harassment with legal representation, said the Weinstein case has certainly been very important in...

Time’s Up fund has linked 4,000 alleged sexual harassment victims with attorneys

"As Oprah was on stage saying Time's Up ... we got over 200 calls just in those couple of hours," co-creator of the fund Fatima Goss Graves said. Since 2018, they've raised $24 million in...

Everyone Benefits from Affordable Childcare — Even Those of Us Without Kids

The care work that women, and especially women of color, perform has been undervalued in the United States for centuries — often precisely because it is women, and especially women of color, who do it....

How Trump’s Food Stamps Rules Hurt Women

“The majority of people receiving SNAP benefits are already working,” said Amy Matsui of National Women’s Law Center. NWLC released a report alongside Food Research and Action Center that found that women make up 63% of adult...

US Latinas need twice the time to match white male’s income

Jasmine Tucker, director of research at the National Women’s Law Center, said the numbers are “outrageous” and “devastating” because the trend has remained unaltered for decades, making impossible for these families to build wealth through...