But Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center, said she found it "pretty shocking that a for-profit company can assert a religious belief to deny benefits to an employee." She noted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employers from discriminating against workers in their pay or benefits because of religion.
Helen Blank, director of child care and early learning for the National Women's Law Center, said Kentucky's cut to the child care assistance program is the steepest in the country. Many states have tweaked the program to save money since 2008, but that trend has been reversing in the last two years as the economy slowly improves, Blank said.
But there’s good news on the horizon. Here comes some technical information, but hang on, it gets better. Recently I talked with EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who said that recently the EEOC picked out three emerging legal issues of discrimination where it wants to make a difference. One is this business of whether employers have to accommodate pregnant workers.
Marcia D. Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, said that 99 percent of women used contraceptives at some point in their lives and that their interests must be considered.
“The health needs, the religious and conscience beliefs of women deserve to be respected and protected,” said Ms. Greenberger, who supports the White House proposal.
It is impossible to determine exactly how much other individuals, like Schwarzman, have benefitted from the carried interest tax provision. In 2007, the National Women's Law Center estimated that the Blackstone chief would save $135 million that year. That is enough to fund Head Start services for 19,000 low-income children, the group noted.
“Certainly on the face of it, it appears that the administration has stood by women’s health,” said Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center. “Women should be able to get the kind of health care coverage that they need.”
"Our overriding concern is that women have meaningful access to essential preventive health care services, like birth control, without co-pays or deductibles," said Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center, which promotes equality for women, in a statement.
Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the National Women’s Law Center, writes, “Some good news from two states advancing elements of the anti-poverty agenda you outlined.”
Obamacare has received praise for helping women receive better care, but the final deal came at a cost during negotiations in 2010. According to the National Women’s Law Center, ” the health care law explicitly allows states to pass laws banning private insurance coverage of abortion in any exchange set up in their state.”
