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Reports & Toolkits

Making Care Less Taxing: Improving State Child and Dependent Care Tax Provisions

April 30, 2006

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.

The Nomination of Samuel Alito a Watershed Moment for Women

December 15, 2005

The National Women's Law Center conducted an extensive review of the publicly available record, concluding  that Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court could lead to the endangerment of core legal rights for women, with profound and harmful consequences for women across the country and for decades to come.

Tools of the Trade: Using the Law to Address Sex Segregation in High School Career and Technical Education

October 22, 2005

These Toolkits provide a customized roadmap for girls, their parents and advocates, educational professionals and state personnel to apply their laws to improve opportunities for girls to participate in nontraditional training.

Power to the People: The Effectiveness of Ballot Measures in Advancing Early Care and Education

September 15, 2005
As states cut funding for child care and early education programs, many advocates for children have taken their case directly to voters. This Reports & Toolkits from the National Women's Law Center finds that voters are often willing to fund services that their elected officials have not always made a priority. Analyzing most of the measures that appeared on the ballot through 2003 in which increased investment in early care and education or after-school programs was the central or a significant component, the Reports & Toolkits concludes that ballot measures can be a useful tool for securing and stabilizing increased funding for early education, child care and after-school programs.

The Record of John Roberts on Critical Legal Rights for Women

August 15, 2005

The National Women's Law Center conducted an extensive review of John Roberts’s public record, concluding that it reflects an approach to the law that limits and narrows women’s core constitutional and statutory protections in three critical areas:  the constitutional right to privacy; constitutional and statutory protections against sex discrimination; and the power of Congress to protect

Ask! Will Your Health Care Providers Follow Your End-of-Life Wishes?

June 09, 2005

What if you create an advance directive specifying your end-of-life wishes, only to have a health care institution or provider refuse to honor it? Unfortunately, more and more often, the religious and ethical beliefs of certain health care providers are limiting the public’s desired end-of-life care. In some states, these refusals are even protected by law. But you are not without rights. Arming yourself with information will help ensure that you get the end-of-life care you want.

Be All That We Can Be: Lessons from the Military for Improving Our Nation's Child Care System: 2004 Follow-Up

June 09, 2005
This publication, a 2004 Follow-Up to Be All that We Can Be: Lessons from the Military for Improving our Nation's Child Care, details the changes and improvements that have occurred in the nation's military child care system since the original Reports & Toolkits was published.