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60 Percent of Women’s Job Gains in the Recovery Are in the 10 Largest...
Women have regained a large number of the jobs they lost during the recession, but their gains are highly concentrated in low-wage occupations. Sixty percent of the increase in employment for women...
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Jobs With Largest Projected Growth 2012-2022: Almost Half are Low-Wage,...
Job growth in the wake of the Great Recession has been concentrated in low-wage jobs, especially for women. Projections for job growth in the next decade show that disproportionate growth in low-wage,...
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Increasing Spousal Protections in Retirement Accounts Would Increase Women’s...
Women reach retirement with fewer pension benefits and retirement assets than men. In 2010, the median annual income from pensions and annuities for women age 65 and older was approximately 56% of the...
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In the Margins: State Child Care Assistance Policies on Provider Reimbursement
Several key child care assistance policies—income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and eligibility for parents searching for a job—have a significant impact on...
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The President’s Proposed EITC Expansion Would Benefit 6.1 Million Working...
The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) encourages and rewards work by boosting the wages of low-wage workers, lifting the incomes of millions of families above the poverty line every year....
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Women are 76 percent of workers in the 10 largest low-wage jobs and suffer a...
Women are three-quarters of workers in the 10 largest occupations that typically pay $10.10 per hour or less (“the 10 largest low-wage jobs”). These jobs have dominated women’s job growth in the...
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Proposed Statutory & Regulatory Changes to CCDBG
In May 2013, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) issued new proposed regulations governing the federal child care assistance program, and in June, Senators Mikulski (D-MD), Burr (R-NC),...
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Nearly One in Five Working Mothers of Very Young Children Work in Low-Wage Jobs
The first years of life are critical to children’s development and their future success. Infants and toddlers need stable, responsive, nurturing relationships for their healthy development. However,...
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Governors’ 2014 State of the State Addresses: Mentions of Early Care and...
A total of 23 governors (13 Democrats and 10 Republicans), as well as the mayor of the District of Columbia, have referenced early care and education in their 2014 State of the State addresses thus...
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Renewing Federal Emergency Unemployment Benefits: Vital for Women &...
Persistently high unemployment—and historic levels of long-term unemployment—necessitate renewing federal emergency unemployment insurance benefits that expired in December 2013.Five years after the...
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Long-Term Unemployment: Spotlight on Women and Families
Since Congress cut off federal emergency unemployment insurance benefits in December 2013, the number of long-term unemployed—workers who have been seeking employment for more than six months—who have...
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Cutting Programs for Low-Income People Especially Hurts Women and Their Families
Download a PDF version of this issue brief with footnotesAs Congress debates spending priorities and tax policies, it must protect programs for low-income families and individuals and ensure that its...
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Women and Social Security
Key FactsThe average Social Security benefit for women 65 and older is about $13,500 per year.Social Security is virtually the only source of income for nearly three in ten female beneficiaries 65 and...
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Union Membership is Critical for Women’s Wage Equality
Union membership boosts wages for all workers—but women see especially large advantages from being in a union. The wage gap among union members is 40 percent smaller than the wage gap among non-union...
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Improving the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Would Help Working Families...
For nearly 60 years, Congress has recognized that the child care expenses parents incur in order to earn income should be acknowledged in the tax code.1 The Obama Administration and several Members of...
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President Obama's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget: Investing in Women and Their Families
After years of stagnant wages, budget cuts, and growing inequality, President Obama's budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, released February 2, 2015, recognizes the need for new investments and approaches...
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Governors’ 2015 State of the State Addresses: Mentions of Early Care and...
A total of 27 governors (14 Democrats and 13 Republicans) referenced early care and education in their 2015 State of the State addresses. These governors recognize the important role of child care and...
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The EITC and the Refundable Child Tax Credit Are Extremely Important to...
Refundable tax credits for low- and moderate income working families, including the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC), provide a significant economic boost to women and...
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Building Pathways, Creating Roadblocks: State Child Care Assistance Policies...
Education and training opportunities help parents trying to gain more stable employment with better pay and benefits. Studies have demonstrated that higher education levels are associated with an...
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Higher State Minimum Wages Promote Fair Pay for Women
Women working full time, year round typically make only 78 percent of what their male counterparts make—leaving a wage gap of 22 cents on the dollar. One reason for this wage gap is that women are...
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The Minimum Wage and the EITC: Complementary Strategies Helping Women Lift...
The minimum wage and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are two federal policies that help low-income workers, especially women, make ends meet and support their families. Improvements to the minimum...
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States with Equal Minimum Wages for Tipped Workers Have Smaller Wage Gaps for...
The federal minimum cash wage for tipped workers has been frozen at $2.13 per hour for 23 years, and now represents less than a third of the federal minimum wage ($7.25 per hour)—its lowest share on...
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Collateral Damage: Scheduling Challenges for Workers in Low-wage Jobs and...
An updated issue brief from the National Women’s Law Center, “Collateral Damage: Scheduling Challenges for Workers in Low-wage Jobs and Their Consequences” describes the range of difficult work...
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Helping Parents in Low-Wage Jobs Access Affordable Child Care: Opportunities...
Many parents work in low-wage jobs with unpredictable, irregular schedules over which they have little control and which frequently involve work at night, in the early morning, and/or on the weekend....
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Green v. Donahoe
The Supreme Court will hear a case in the 2015-2016 Term that could raise new legal obstacles for individuals who faced intolerable discrimination in the workplace that forced them to quit their jobs....
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