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June Jobs Report: Women’s Job Losses Double Compared to This Time Last Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The economy gained 57,000 jobs in June but these gains are small compared to the 671,000 people who left the labor force in June, according to a National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)...

NWLC Sounds Alarm on Project 2025 Plan to Politicize More Than $1 Trillion in Federal Funding

Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a new fact sheet detailing how a Trump administration proposal to overhaul federal grantmaking would give presidential appointees unprecedented political control over more than $1.1 trillion in annual...

NWLC Reacts to EEOC Rescinding Decades-Old Affirmative Action Guidelines

Washington, DC – The EEOC announced today that it voted to rescind its longstanding guidance documents on affirmative action. Rescinding these guidelines does not overrule Supreme Court case law, but it will create confusion for...

NWLC on SCOTUS Hecox Decision: ‘Devastating Setback for Title IX’

WASHINGTON D.C. - The Supreme Court’s ruling today in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B. P. J. allows states to ban transgender women and girls from playing on women and girls school sports...

Title IX Turns 54 Amid Barrage of Attacks on Vulnerable Students

Washington, D.C. - Today marks 54 years since the passage of Title IX, a landmark law that made it illegal to exclude people from federally-funded educational programs or activities on the basis of their sex. ...

NWLC Proud to Partner with Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival

Washington, D.C. — Today, Olivia Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields — a new music festival taking place on August 29 at Great Park in Irvine, California. The inaugural festival will bring together some of the biggest names...

Hard Work, Low Pay: Women Are Bearing the Brunt of Trump’s Economic Agenda

Washington, DC – A new fact sheet from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) finds that women make up a majority of the low-paid workforce — defined as working in one of the 40 lowest-paying...

NWLC Slams Education Department for Illegally Transferring Offices

Washington, D.C. - According to recent reports, the Department of Education is expected to announce that two of its vital offices will illegally be transferred to outside federal departments: The Office of Special Education and...

New NWLC Poll: Voters Skeptical of Stripping Rights from Transgender Student Athletes

Washington, D.C. — Ahead of the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox, a new National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) poll finds that voters nationwide do not believe the Court...

Trump Administration Quietly Takes Step Toward Giving Rights to Embryos

“Fetal Personhood” is a Key Tactic of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Strategy to Undermine IVF, Abortion, and Other Types of Reproductive Health Care Washington, DC – The Trump administration has quietly revised a federal grant program to help give rights and benefits to embryos, a move that is...

Senate Confirms Trump’s Personal Lawyer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Washington, D.C. - Today the Senate voted 48-43 to confirm Justin Smith–best known for serving as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer in E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump–to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth...

May Jobs Report: Over 300K Women Have Left the Workforce in 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- About 120,000 people aged 20 and over joined the labor force in May, however those gains were entirely among men while women left the labor force last month, according to a National...

Equal Work Deserves Equal Pay: NWLC Wins Settlement in Zoetis Pay Bias Case

WASHINGTON — Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), along with co-counsel Kakalec Law PLLC and Harrison, Harrison & Associates, announced it reached a settlement agreement with Zoetis, Inc., one of the world’s largest animal...

NWLC Fact Sheet: Single Moms, Women of Color Disproportionately Harmed by SNAP Cuts

Washington, DC – A new fact sheet from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) reveals that cuts to federal food assistance, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), are disproportionately harming women. An NWLC analysis of the most recent latest available SNAP data finds that women are likely overrepresented among the 3.5 million people who have already lost benefits,...

NWLC Finds Waiting Lists for Child Care Assistance Nearly Doubled in 2025

Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center released its annual State Child Care Assistance Policies report, finding that the number of children placed on waiting lists for federally funded child care assistance nearly doubled...

Trump Administration Sued Over Draconian VA Abortion Ban

Washington, DC – Minority Veterans of America (MVA), represented by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and Democracy Forward, is suing the Trump-Vance administration over its ban on abortion care and counseling at the Department...

NWLC: SCOTUS Ruling on Abortion Pill Preserves Access, but Threat Remains

WASHINGTON D.C. — The Supreme Court tonight extended its temporary order blocking the 5th Circuit Court’s ruling that prohibited mail and pharmacy distribution of mifepristone, a safe, effective medication used in most U.S. abortions as...

NWLC Resource Highlights Importance of Social Security for Women as DOGE Cuts Undermine Agency

Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center released a comprehensive fact sheet outlining the importance of Social Security for women, who make up more than half (55%) of the program's beneficiaries over age 62....

NWLC on Moms.Gov: “A Pronatalist, Anti-Woman Website Littered with Misinformation”

Washington, DC — The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released the following statement condemning the Trump-Vance administration’s launch of “moms.gov,” a taxpayer-funded website promoting anti-abortion rhetoric, anti-science misinformation, and policies that could harm pregnant people...

Trump Administration Finalizes Rule that Raises Costs for Families and Destabilizes Child Care System

Washington, DC — The Trump administration finalized plans to reverse a Biden-era child care rule that helped protect families from excessive costs and provided greater financial stability for child care programs. The new rule could impact...

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