Fact Sheet

Child Care: A Core Support to Children and Families

February 12, 2013
  • Child care assistance can not only give children greater access to high-quality environments when their parents work; it can improve children’s home environments. When parents have the child care they need to work, they are able to earn more income.  This allows them to offer more stability, opportunities, and resources for their children.
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Fair Pay for Women and People of Color in Connecticut Requires Increasing the Minimum Wage

February 08, 2013

Tens of thousands of workers in Connecticut – mostly women and people of color – struggle to make ends meet on minimum wage earnings.  A bill pending in the Connecticut Senate (S.B. Read more »

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A Higher Minimum Wage Would Benefit Working Women, Their Families and All New Jerseyans

February 06, 2013

Key Facts

  • Women and people of color are the majority of minimum- and low-wage earners in New Jersey.
  • Full-time workers making the current minimum wage of $7.25 per hour earn $14,500 annually – about $3,600 below the poverty line for a family of three, and far less th
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Coverage of the Women’s Preventive Health Services: Calling Your Student Health Plan

February 01, 2013

We’ve updated our materials on calling your insurance plan. Please visit this page.

Contraceptive Coverage in the Health Care Law: Frequently Asked Questions

February 01, 2013

For a PDF version of this fact sheet with footnotes see below. Read more »

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Women’s Preventive Services in the Affordable Care Act: Frequently Asked Questions

February 01, 2013

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Sex Stereotypes: How They Hurt Women in the Workplace - and the Wallet

January 30, 2013

Today, women who work full time, year round are paid only 77 cents on average for every dollar paid to their male counterparts.  That’s shortchanging women and their families more than 10,000 dollars per year.  This wage gap—which hasn’t changed in a decade —occurs in part because of outdated stereotypes about women and their “proper” place in society and in the workforce. Read more »

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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

January 29, 2013

Women today are paid, on average, only 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. Read more »

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Health Care Refusals Harm Patients: The Threat to Reproductive Health Care

January 25, 2013

For a PDF version of this factsheet with footnotes, please see below. Read more »

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