"This version of the CR would allow bosses to impose their religious beliefs on the women who work for them by blocking women’s access to preventive health are for broad and undefined ‘moral’ reasons," said National Women's Law Center Co-President Marcia D. Greenberger in a statement.
“It’s not surprising insurance companies are saying no,” said Judy Waxman, of the National Women’s Law Center. “We have to keep pushing them and educating them and telling them what the law really says.”
By paying into Medicaid, we create a healthier society and support the economy. A 2012 report by the National Women’s Law Center found that Medicaid supports 57,096 jobs in Missouri. Not only that, but medical coverage means medical conditions can be dealt with, jobs can be retained and families can have incomes that allow them to contribute to the economy.
Those are just a few facts contained in the report, “Insecure & Unequal. Poverty and Income Among Women and Families 2000-2012,” done by the National Women’s Law Center.
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.”
Extreme poverty among women over age 65 who lived alone jumped between 2011 and 2012, according to a new report from the National Women's Law Center, "Insecure & Unequal," analyzing recently released Census data.
The downside is that the gains for women have been largely in low-paying jobs such as waitressing, in-home health care, food preparation, and housekeeping. About 60 percent of the increase in women’s employment from 2009 to 2012 was in jobs that pay less than $10.10 an hour, vs. 20 percent for men, according to a study by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC).
Revenue from a proposed tobacco tax hike could help improve Oklahoma's education programs for 3-year-olds, a spokeswoman for the National Women's Law Center says.
“The cause has to be something that hits elderly individuals particularly hard,” said Kate Gallagher Robbins, a senior policy analyst at the National Women’s Law Center, who conducted the study. ”We also know that poverty for elderly men and women was statistically unchanged so we are talking about a group of individuals who went from being poor to extremely poor.”
