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Chabeli Carrazana
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The Paycheck Fairness Act to close the gender wage gap failed in Congress. What comes next?
Advocates thought this might be the time, in light of the women’s recession, that a 24-year effort to pass additional protections for women in the workforce would pass. It failed to gain support from Republicans.
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Summer camps haven't fully recovered. That could hurt working moms.
Without a full return of summer programs this year, working moms face months of uncertainty that could further splinter their relationship with the workforce.
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Barriers for Black women set U.S. economy back by $500 billion, report finds
The persisting wage gap has set Black women — and the American economy as a whole — back for the past six decades, according to a report by financial services firm S&P Global.
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More than half of the job gains in May went to women
Women gained 314,000 net jobs in May as the economic recovery continued. Unemployment rates for women dropped across all racial categories, though Black women and Latinas continue to see the highest rates.
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This policy could cut child poverty in half — if it reaches those who need it most
The historic expansion of the child tax credit this year could slash child poverty in half, but only if the poorest families can access it. Reaching them is a massive task the country has never taken on.
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The keys to fixing child care are now in the hands of states. They may not be ready for the task
Biden’s American Rescue Plan allocated $39 billion for child care — a historic infusion. But states are relying on small staffs, old systems and a short timeline to get the money out equitably.
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Most families with children will start receiving monthly checks up to $300 July 15
Through an expansion of the child tax credit passed earlier this year, about 90 percent of families with kids will start receiving the tax credit monthly in their bank accounts.
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Women in health care are at a breaking point — and they’re leaving
In the pandemic, women are abandoning health care jobs, citing burnout and decades of inequities in a system that was never designed to support them.
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Women are leading strikes and walkouts demanding restaurants pay a living wage
After years of being overworked, underpaid and harassed, the women who make up the vast majority of the nation’s restaurant workforce are demanding change.
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A year from the start of the women’s recession, 2 million women are still out of the workforce
About 165,000 women left the workforce in April as the economic recovery sputters. Unemployment rates continue to be higher for women of color.