Economic Recovery

Meeting the Needs of Women and Families

Women and their families are facing an economic crisis across the country. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contains many of the crucial provisions we fought so hard to include, such as funding for child care and Head Start, child support enforcement, health care, education and job training.

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• What Families Need to Know About Tax Credits in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act When They File Their Taxes This Year (March 19, 2009)
• Unemployment Insurance Reforms Important to Women Can Mean More Funding for States (March 16, 2009)
• Making Use Use of Economic Recovery Funds: Child Care Policy Options for States (March 9, 2009)
• Family Tax Credits in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (March 5, 2009)
• NWLC Summary: How the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan Addresses Women’s Needs (February 13, 2009)
• NWLC Letter to Conferees on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (February 11, 2009)
• NWLC Summary: Senate Compromise Bill
• A Platform for Building Economic Security
• NWLC's Recommendations to President Obama and Congress on Economic Recovery
• Coalition Sign-On Letter to President-Elect Obama (December 18, 2008)
• Coalition on Human Needs: Towards Shared Recovery: Essential Steps to Reverse a Long & Deep Recession

Child Care and Economic Recovery

• Audio Recording and Transcipt of Update on State Child Care Assistance Policies and Use of Economic Recovery Funds (October 15, 2009)
• Audio Recording of An Economic Recovery Update: How States Can Use Economic Recovery Funds to Help Child Care (May 21, 2009)
• Guidance on CCDBG Economic Recovery Funds (April 13, 2009)
• $5 Billion in Additional Funding for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Now Available to States to Meet Urgent Needs (April 13, 2009)
• Making Use of Economic Recovery Funds: Child Care Policy Options for States (March 9, 2009)
• Transcript of Audio Conference Call featuring Helen Blank and Danielle Ewen: Child Care and Early Education: Opportunities to Serve More Low-Income, Working Families Related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (February 25, 2009)
• Letter to the Conferees on the Early Childhood Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (February 11, 2009)
• Sign-On Letter to the House Appropriations Committee on Including Child Care and Head Start in the Economic Recovery Package (January 21, 2009)
• Update on Funding for Child Care and Head Start
• Sign-On Letter to Congress on Including Child Care and Head Start in the Economic Recovery Package (December 18, 2008)
• Child Care as an Economic Stimulus
• Memo from the Child Care and Early Learning Coalition to the Transition Team

NWLC Blog Posts on Economic Recovery

• Early Education and Economic Recovery: What's the Latest and What's Next, Feb. 10, 2009
• Stop Stalling!!, Feb. 6, 2009
• Not the Housing Help that Average Families Need, Feb. 5, 2009
• Seriously??, Feb 5, 2009
• Double Standards in the Economic Recovery Debate, Feb 3, 2009
• Making Early Childhood Part of Economic Recovery, Jan. 28, 2009
• Tax Credits for Working Families Get Top Marks as Economic Recovery Measures, Jan. 27, 2009
• An Economic Recovery for Children and Families, Jan. 22, 2009
• No Time to Wait for Action on Child Care, Jan. 15, 2009
• Child Care and Economic Recovery, Dec. 23, 2008
• Early Learning Initiatives Good News for Families and the Economy, Dec. 17, 2008
• Losing a Job, Gaining Bad Health, Dec. 11, 2008
• Child Care is Infrastructure Too, Dec. 10, 2008
• Unhappy Holidays, Dec. 9, 2008

NWLC Press Releases on Economic Recovery

• Women's Private Health Coverage, Incomes Decline While Poverty Increases, Census Data Show,  September 10, 2009
• Unemployment Rate Rising Rapidly for Women, March 6, 2009
• NWLC Press Statement: Final Economic Recovery Package Substantially Helps Women and Families, Feb. 13, 2009
• NWLC Press Statement: Senate Must Pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Feb. 9, 2009
• NWLC Press Statement: American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan Addresses Women’s Needs, Jan. 15, 2009
• Unemployment Rate Rises Twice as Fast for Women, Sept. 5, 2008
• Limited Gains for Women in 2007, Census Data Show, Aug. 26, 2008
• Poll: Women Pessimistic on Economy, Worried About Future, Aug. 6, 2008