Issue - National Women's Law Center

Abortion

NWLC Condemns House Committee Passage of Pronatalist, Anti-Abortion Moms.Gov Legislation

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

Athletics

New NWLC Poll: Voters Skeptical of Stripping Rights from Transgender Student Athletes

NWLC Submits Responses to Sen. Cassidy’s RFI Highlighting Gender Disparities in NIL Agreements

NWLC Submits Responses to Sen. Cassidy’s RFI Highlighting Gender Disparities in NIL Agreements

NWLC Condemns Olympic Committee’s Transgender Athlete Ban and Embrace of Sex-Testing

Attacks on Diversity & Inclusion

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

Basic Needs Programs

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

New Poverty Data Analysis by NWLC Shows the Wage Gap Widened for Black Women

New Poverty Data Analysis by NWLC Shows the Wage Gap Widened for Black Women

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

Birth Control

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

My IUD Story: Why Birth Control is for Trans People, Too

Caregiving

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

In States Across the U.S., the Big Ugly Bill Is Making Families Go Hungry

Child Care & Early Learning

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

Fatima Goss Graves Joins Members of Congress and Advocates to Protect Head Start

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Lower-Income Households Now Spend 95% of Their Pre-Tax Income on Basic Needs

Data on Poverty & Income

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Lower-Income Households Now Spend 95% of Their Pre-Tax Income on Basic Needs

Squeezing the Budget: Rising Costs, Income Inequality, and The Affordability Crisis

Squeezing the Budget: Rising Costs, Income Inequality, and The Affordability Crisis

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Squeezing the Budget: Two Decades of Data Reveal Widening Disparities as Spending for Basic Needs Outpaces Income Growth for Lower-Income Households

Democracy

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

United States Postal Service v. California; Trump v. League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

United States Postal Service v. California; Trump v. League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Pointer et al. v. Phelps et al.

Education & Title IX

Joint Statement by Women’s Rights Organizations: Keep Title IX’s Protections Broad

Joint Statement by Women’s Rights Organizations: Keep Title IX’s Protections Broad

Pointer et al. v. Phelps et al.

Two Offices, Two Roles, 73 Million Students

Two Offices, Two Roles, 73 Million Students

Equal Pay & the Wage Gap

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

New Poverty Data Analysis by NWLC Shows the Wage Gap Widened for Black Women

New Poverty Data Analysis by NWLC Shows the Wage Gap Widened for Black Women

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

Health Care

NWLC Condemns House Committee Passage of Pronatalist, Anti-Abortion Moms.Gov Legislation

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

Housing

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Lower-Income Households Now Spend 95% of Their Pre-Tax Income on Basic Needs

Squeezing the Budget: Rising Costs, Income Inequality, and The Affordability Crisis

Squeezing the Budget: Rising Costs, Income Inequality, and The Affordability Crisis

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Squeezing the Budget: Two Decades of Data Reveal Widening Disparities as Spending for Basic Needs Outpaces Income Growth for Lower-Income Households

In Culture

NWLC Celebrates the Life of Gloria Steinem

NWLC Celebrates the Life of Gloria Steinem

NWLC Proud to Partner with Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival

NWLC Proud to Partner with Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival

Belle Burden’s “Strangers” Shows How Project 2025’s Pronatalist Policies Will Trap Women in Poverty as They Age

In the States

States in the Resistance: Summer 2026

States Take Action to Stop Employment Discrimination Based on Reproductive Health Care Decisions

All 50 States Sound Alarm on Trump’s Plan to Hijack $1.1 Trillion in Federal Grants

Income Supports

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

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Lower-Income Households Now Spend 95% of Their Pre-Tax Income on Basic Needs

Judges

NWLC Letter of Opposition to the Nomination of Anna St. John to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

NWLC Letter of Opposition to the Nomination of Anna St. John to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

NWLC Letter of Opposition to the Nomination of Judge Anna St. John to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

NWLC Letter of Opposition to the Nomination of Judge Anna St. John to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

NWLC Reacts to Confirmation of Benjamin Flowers to Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Legal Work & Help

Grandmother and grandchildren at home

Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Against the HHS for Withholding Information About Child Care Funding Restrictions

Pregnant and Parenting Students: Know Your Rights

Pregnant and Parenting Students: Know Your Rights

LGBTQIA+ Equality

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

My IUD Story: Why Birth Control is for Trans People, Too

Poverty & Income Security

Income Supports

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

New Poverty Data Analysis by NWLC Shows the Wage Gap Widened for Black Women

New Poverty Data Analysis by NWLC Shows the Wage Gap Widened for Black Women

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

NWLC Resources on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance in 2025

Pregnancy & Parenting at Work

NWLC on Moms.Gov: “A Pronatalist, Anti-Woman Website Littered with Misinformation”

Webinar: Pregnant Workers’ Rights in 2026: Legal Updates, Litigation Trends, and Emerging Issues

Webinar: Pregnant Workers’ Rights in 2026: Legal Updates, Litigation Trends, and Emerging Issues

Gender Justice and Survivor Advocacy Organizations Oppose Rollback of HUD Disparate Impact Standards

Gender Justice and Survivor Advocacy Organizations Oppose Rollback of HUD Disparate Impact Standards

Pregnant & Parenting Students

How the Trump Administration Is Turning Our Nation’s Family Planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs into a Tool of the Pronatalist Movement

Gender Justice and Survivor Advocacy Organizations Oppose Rollback of HUD Disparate Impact Standards

Gender Justice and Survivor Advocacy Organizations Oppose Rollback of HUD Disparate Impact Standards

NWLC Says Pregnant Students’ Rights Act Fails to Support Students

Pronatalism and Gender Justice

NWLC Condemns House Committee Passage of Pronatalist, Anti-Abortion Moms.Gov Legislation

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

The Heritage Foundation Wants to Tax Women Into Traditionalism

Sexual Harassment in Schools

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

Crowther & Joseph v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

Crowther & Joseph v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

Pregnant and Parenting Students: Know Your Rights

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

Shumway v. SpaceX, et al.

Fact Sheet: The Trump Administration is Taking a Page out of Project 2025 to Hijack More Than $1 Trillion in Federal Grants

Taxes

The Heritage Foundation Wants to Tax Women Into Traditionalism

Squeezing the Budget: Rising Costs, Income Inequality, and The Affordability Crisis

Squeezing the Budget: Rising Costs, Income Inequality, and The Affordability Crisis

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Squeezing the Budget: Two Decades of Data Reveal Widening Disparities as Spending for Basic Needs Outpaces Income Growth for Lower-Income Households

Workplace Justice

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New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

NAACP, NWLC and 31 Organizations Raise Deep Concerns About Sec. Hegseth’s Reported Interference in Promotions of African Americans and Women Serving in Our Nation’s Armed Forces

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship

NWLC Survey: People Are Struggling With Rising Costs and Economic Hardship