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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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How expanding vaccine eligibility for kids will impact mothers
The FDA authorized the Pfizer vaccine for those 12 to 15. Experts say that could help moms get back to work.
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‘Get your free money, girl!’ Six tips to improve your financial health
Student loans. Investing. Home ownership. These are big financial issues that Mandi Woodruff and Tiffany Aliche, hosts of the podcast Brown Ambition, addressed during a recent Live with The 19th event.
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The women’s recession isn’t over — especially for moms
One year since the start of the women’s recession, hundreds of thousands of moms have been forced to leave their jobs — and grapple with the consequences.
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Biden’s new $1.8 trillion plan largely aims to help working women
Biden’s proposed American Families Plan includes historic investments in the child care industry, the country’s first universal paid family and medical leave program, and its first universal preschool program.
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‘I feel like I’m drowning’: Women business owners keep hitting new barriers to federal loan aid
Women, especially women of color, are driving small-business growth during a pandemic in which they’ve been hit particularly hard — and missed out on help.
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Elizabeth Warren to reintroduce $700 billion universal child care proposal
That investment, far more than what Biden has indicated he will seek, has support from other progressive lawmakers, per a letter shared first with The 19th.