Reports & Toolkits

This report analyzes the President's FY2008 budget and outlines the prosals that would increase inequality and insecurity for women and families.

Medicaid is a critical source of insurance for low-income women. This toolkit includes background information on the Medicaid program and its importance to women's health; information on the significance of Medicaid to minority communities; an explanation of the 2006 federal Medicaid cuts and their impact on key health services, including information on cost-sharing and documentation requirements; detailed analyses of the importance of Medicaid family planning services and the significance of Medicaid family planning waivers as a means of expanding access; and state-specific information on Medicaid and its importance to women.

This report series is designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services.

This essential report series, issued in full every five years, with annual updates, provides recommendations for state policymakers and advocates on ways to develop the best tax policies for families that must pay for costly child and dependent care to be gainfully employed.