A lawsuit filed by the National Women's Law Center claims a girl was raped by a star basketball, shamed on social media and told to keep quiet by school authorities. Kyra Phillips talks with Fatima Goss Graves of the National Women's Law Center about why the victim has decided to sue 3 years after the alleged incident.
Fast forward to day, and the school is being sued by the National Women’s Law Center and some local lawyers for their gross failure to investigate the assault and protect the student — a legal obligation under Title IX. Bring those mothers down to the ground, NWLC.
In Michigan, the National Women’s Law Center says, the principal of the cheerleader’s high school “discouraged the student and her parents from filing charges” and failed to “investigate the assault and protect the student” when she reported it to higher-ups.
In Michigan, the National Women’s Law Center says, the principal of the cheerleader’s high school “discouraged the student and her parents from filing charges” and failed to “investigate the assault and protect the student” when she reported it to higher-ups.
“This is the next wave of it,” said Leila Abolfazli, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington D.C. “The mandate is leveling the playing field for all women to have access to birth control.”
The National Women’s Law Center has filed several friend-of-the court briefs in support of the administration’s mandate.
A report by the National Women’s Law Center, based on data from the Current Population Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau, pegs the national gap at 23 cents for every dollar earned in 2011. In Oregon, it’s 22 cents, putting it 24th. The smallest gaps were in Washington, D.C., at 10 cents and Vermont at 13 cents; Wyoming ranked last with a gap of 33 cents.
Nearly 80 percent of the workers who would be directly affected by a minimum wage increase are adults, as seen in an analysis by the National Women's Law Center. When you include those who would be indirectly affected that figure becomes more than 92 percent.
“With people facing an increasingly insecure retirement, this is no time to say, ‘Let’s cut Social Security,’ ” said Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the National Women’s Law Center.
The change wouldn’t result in a big benefit cut right away, but the slower rate of growth would compound over time. As a result, Mr. Obama included a measure to soften the impact for the elderly. But even with the two increases in benefits outlined in the budget, many retirees would still end up losing thousands of dollars, according to calculations by the National Women’s Law Center.
"This is a good step to help low and moderate-income families," said Helen Blank, director of child care and early learning for the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C. "You get a double benefit - there's higher quality pre-K, and research shows (the tax increase) can reduce smoking in older children."
