St. Louis, MO - November 16, 2023 — Today, the St. Louis City Court will hold a crucial hearing in the case of Rev. Traci Blackmon v. State of Missouri. In this case, a group...
Washington, DC – A new National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) analysis found that between 2021 and 2022, the poverty rate for families with children headed by single women as measured by the Supplemental Poverty Measure...
The following is a statement by Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): “We are thrilled to celebrate the nomination of Nicole Berner to the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a brief today that includes data showing that homeownership rates for Black women and Latinas in 2021 still have not recovered from the Great Recession...
Washington, DC – Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing on the President’s domestic supplemental funding request to Congress, which includes $16 billion for child care. The witnesses at today’s hearing included the Secretary...
(Washington, D.C.) — Today, President Biden announced his intent to nominate five highly-qualified individuals to federal district courts. This announcement marks President Biden's forty-first round of nominees for federal judicial positions. The following is a...
Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and State Innovation Exchange (SiX) are launching the State Gender Policy Collective (“the Collective”) that will deepen and expand policy, research, and communications support–and cross-state collaboration–for state policymakers and leaders...
Washington, DC – President Joe Biden released his domestic emergency aid priorities to Congress today, which includes $16 billion for emergency child care funding -- which is the same amount of emergency funding that the National Women’s...
Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and partners including End Rape on Campus, Every Voice Coalition, It’s on Us, Know Your IX, the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Equal Rights Advocates,...
Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) today released a new factsheet underscoring the importance of improving the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program to help advance gender, racial, and disability justice, which comes...
Washington, DC— October 5, 2023 — Representing three named women truck drivers and REAL Women in Trucking, the National Women's Law Center, in partnership with co-counsel Peter Romer-Friedman Law PLLC, filed a class action hiring...
Washington, DC – Melissa Boteach, Vice President of Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), released the following statement hours before billions of child care dollars in the American...
Washington, DC – Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), released the following statement regarding the death of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. “Senator Dianne Feinstein was a true trailblazer...
Washington, DC – Using data from the latest round (Week 61) of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, NWLC found that one in five women with children under 12 years old in the household...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Jan Schakowsky reintroduced the Schedules That Work Act and the Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act—two critically needed bills that will extend vital protections...
From 2018 to 2021, SKDK was on a monthly retainer with the TIME’s Up Legal Defense Fund (“the Fund”), an initiative that has been run by staff at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) since...
Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released new data that revealed an historic increase in the country’s poverty rates. Between 2021 and 2022, the poverty rate as measured by the Supplemental Poverty Measure...
Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) today led nearly 1,000 child care providers and advocates from all 50 states, including more than 100 national organizations, in calling on Congress to immediately pass...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the Biden Administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a rule to substantially strengthen the weak overtime regulations issued by the Trump Administration in 2019. Under the proposal, the annual salary threshold under...
Letter Underscores Importance of SNAP for Women; Cites Recent NWLC Data Showing Women Make Up Majority of SNAP Recipients  Washington, DC – Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), MomsRising, and the Food Research &...
