As a second Trump administration approaches, we’re running out of time to confirm as many federal judges as possible to provide a check on his presidential power and curb his stated policy priorities.
There are 45 federal judicial vacancies and 16 nominations before the Senate right now—as our civil rights hang in the balance, take action now!
The National Women’s Law Center submitted a comment to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) urging the Interagency Technical Working Group on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty to meaningfully expand—not artificially shrink—poverty measures to include all women, children, and families experiencing economic deprivation, not just those currently counted as poor. Given the focus required by the Center and other stakeholders in responding to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis, the Center also urged OMB to reopen the comment period to provide the public with a meaningful opportunity to comment on ways to measure poverty accurately.
