In the post-Dukes world, “there’s trepidation,” acknowledged Emily Martin, vice president and general counsel for the National Women’s Law Center, which has been closely monitoring the case and its aftermath. “But it’s not as though everyone is rolling up their tents and going home.”
On Oct. 2, the National Women's Law Center, an organization that uses research and analysis to advocate for women's advancement, tweeted the strong show of interest by Americans in participating in the new health care law, citing 4.7 million visitors to healthcare.gov and 190,000 enrollees.
According to a 2011 analysis by the National Women's Law Center, 727,000 women are uninsured in our state. That figure represents an incredible 18 percent of Illinois women, including 25 percent of black women and 36 percent of Latinas. Because of Obamacare, many women and their children are newly eligible for Medicaid.
Dania Palanker, senior counsel for the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., says if your income qualifies you for the cost-sharing discount, you're automatically eligible for the premium tax credit.
"Not only is your premium going to be less expensive, but your deductibles and copays will also be lower," she says.
(Washington, D.C.) The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) is enlisting the power of moms across the country to help encourage their young adult children to visit Healthcare.gov and enroll in coverage through the health insurance marketplace, NWLC said today.
A second Title IX complaint, filed in the summer by the National Women’s Law Center, is under investigation. That complaint found that the gap between the percentage of girls enrolled in high school and the percentage playing sports is as high as 18 in some schools, higher than in many other districts with active Title IX investigations.
Hate the poor? Hate women? Triple star deluxe hate poor women? Then you're going to love this: the WIC program, which provides healthy food vouchers to low income pregnant women and new mothers, won't be able to continue nationally if the shutdown lasts a couple of weeks.
“Unexpectedly losing income is going to be difficult for workers across the board,” Kate Gallagher Robbins, senior policy analyst at the National Women’s Law Center, told RH Reality Check. “Minimum-wage workers are in the most difficult situation in terms of having a cushion that will protect them from this kind of income shock. There are also a lot of young people in D.C.
“It is a very shocking number," says Anna Benyo, a senior policy analyst with the National Women’s Law Center. "What the data is showing us is that Hispanic women are disproportionately in poverty, and so they don’t have the funds to be able to purchase insurance, and are probably in households where neither adult has access to coverage through their job.”
This lack of protection has led to many difficult, even fatal, experiences for pregnant workers across the country. The National Women’s Law Center and A Better Balance collected some of their stories. A worker named Yvette had her pregnancy end in a miscarriage after her manager refused to let her avoid heavy lifting and “actually responded by giving me more heavy lifting to do,” she says.
