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The Labor Department’s first Black woman chief economist has a plan to center racial equity
Janelle Jones is taking her “Black women best” economic framework — the concept that economic policy isn’t working unless it’s helping Black women — to the Department of Labor.
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How has America’s first women's recession during COVID-19 impacted you?
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the 2020 economic downturn, The 19th plans to tell the stories of the women who left the workforce — the mothers who were forced out or chose to leave it.
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Unemployment continues to be highest for women of color, while it drops for White women
Black and Asian women’s unemployment rose in January, while Latina unemployment continues to be among the highest in the country, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
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As chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, Cecilia Rouse would focus on those ‘left behind’
Rouse, a respected economist who has previously served on the three-person council, would be the first Black person to serve as chair.
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Gina Raimondo’s focus as commerce secretary: inequality, jobs and climate change
Commerce secretary nominee Gina Raimondo, the governor of Rhode Island, said in her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that she will focus on job creation with an eye on climate change and workers.
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Janet Yellen becomes the first woman to serve as Treasury secretary
A well-respected economist, Yellen has previously served as chair of the Federal Reserve and chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
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Four new executive orders could give women an outsized economic boost
The orders, two of which Biden will sign Friday, will provide additional food aid, raise the minimum wage for federal workers, as well as extend eviction moratoriums and student debt deference.
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America falls far behind in supporting women with paid sick leave. Will Biden help with a national policy?
With nominees to lead the Treasury, Labor and Commerce departments who are committed to paid sick leave, President Joe Biden’s administration is poised to perhaps move the needle toward a national policy.
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In confirmation hearings, Treasury nominee Janet Yellen specifies who she’s fighting for: Women and people of color
If confirmed, Yellen’s top priority as the country’s first woman Treasury secretary would be to put in place programs that help those most affected by the pandemic recession.
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Biden to announce his $1.9 trillion economic plan. Much of it will help women.
In what he’s calling his “Rescue” plan, President-elect Joe Biden laid out his economic proposal to get aid to families, child care centers, schools and those hardest hit by the pandemic. The plan would need support from Congress to pass.