Poverty & Income Support

State Child Care Assistance

Reduced Support for Families

Review of key child care subsidy policies reveals families are worse off in 37 states.

Read more, and watch a CNN story illustrating what these cuts mean.

Unemployment Insurance

Congress' temporary extension of federal UI runs out in February. Act now to prevent millions of unemployed workers from losing the lifeline of UI benefits!

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Grim Poverty Statistics Show Need for Jobs

NWLC analysis reveals increasing numbers of women living in poverty and without health insurance, plus an unchanged wage gap.

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Jobs Plan Has Important Provisions for Women

Last week President Obama proposed a $447 billion plan to put Americans back to work and get the economy moving.

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NWLC's Tax Credits Outreach Campaign

HELP FAMILIES GET TAX CREDITS

Tax credits can be worth thousands of dollars to working families.

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State Child Care Assistance
Unemployment
New Census Data on Women
President's Job Plan
Tax Credits for Working Families

Highlights

Fact Sheet | Fair Pay for Women Means an Increase in the Minimum Wage and the Tipped Minimum Wage

February 3, 2012

Each year, millions of workers are paid the minimum wage and rely on these wages to support themselves and their families.  But the federal miniumum wage hasn't increased since 2007 and the tipped minimum wage hasn't increased since 1991. Increasing the federal minimum wage and the tipped minimum is vital for women who made up about two-thirds of all workers who earned minimum wage or less in 2010. 

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Fact Sheet | Modest Recovery Largely Leaves Women Behind

February 3, 2012

This resource, updated monthly as new data on jobs and unemployment is released, shows how the modest recovery that officially started in June 2009 has left women behind. 

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Fact Sheet | The Unemployment Emergency Continues for Women and Their Families – But Emergency Unemployment Benefits Are About to Expire

January 31, 2012

Federal emergency unemployment benefits are set to expire at the beginning of 2012, unless Congress votes to extend them. With record numbers of Americans unemployed for over six months, it is absolutely critical that Congress acts to help the millions of women and men still looking for work.

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More Resources

Legal Briefs & Testimony | Proposed Rulemaking, Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Domestic Service Rule (RIN 1232-AA05)

February 09, 2012

The National Women's Law Center submitted comments to the Department of Labor in support of a proposed rule that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations to extend basic labor protections – minimum wage and overtime premium pay – to nearly 1.8 million low-wage home care workers.

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Fact Sheet | Fair Pay for Women Means an Increase in the Minimum Wage and the Tipped Minimum Wage

February 03, 2012

Each year, millions of workers are paid the minimum wage and rely on these wages to support themselves and their families.  But the federal miniumum wage hasn't increased since 2007 and the tipped minimum wage hasn't increased since 1991. Increasing the federal minimum wage and the tipped minimum is vital for women who made up about two-thirds of all workers who earned minimum wage or less in 2010. 

 Read more...

Fact Sheet | Modest Recovery Largely Leaves Women Behind

February 03, 2012

This resource, updated monthly as new data on jobs and unemployment is released, shows how the modest recovery that officially started in June 2009 has left women behind. 

 Read more...

Fact Sheet | The Unemployment Emergency Continues for Women and Their Families – But Emergency Unemployment Benefits Are About to Expire

January 31, 2012

Federal emergency unemployment benefits are set to expire at the beginning of 2012, unless Congress votes to extend them. With record numbers of Americans unemployed for over six months, it is absolutely critical that Congress acts to help the millions of women and men still looking for work.

 Read more...

Fact Sheet | Tax Credits Q&A

January 18, 2012

Get detailed information about each of the federal tax credits including the Earned Income Tax Credit,  the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and the Making Work Pay Credit.

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