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Voices for International Women’s Day
By Caroline Dobuzinskis International Women’s Day is important for a myriad of reasons, but they all add up to one: achieving equality for women. This day calls on us to remember that women still have...
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Women and Immigration
by Mallory Mpare The U.S. has often been dubbed the “nation of immigrants” and this is no less true today. However, the face of immigration has drastically changed while policies and practices have...
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Social Security: A Lifeline for Latinas
by Mallory Mpare With talks about the national debt and deficit dominating policy discussions, much attention has been paid to the fabled contributions Social Security makes to the national debt. As...
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Young Women Need Paid Sick Days (Too)
by Claudia Williams While some workers lacking paid sick leave can take time off without losing pay, many lose pay when they are out sick and cannot afford to take a single day off. This is...
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Putting the Pieces Together: How Social Security Supports Black Women
by Mallory Mpare The longer Social Security remains on the table for cuts as part of a comprehensive debt reduction plan, the more nervous those close to the program should be. And with good reason....
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Author Finds Technology a Tool Not a Solution in Bridging Divide
By Leah Josephson People often describe the “digital divide” in terms of high-income individuals’ having access to cutting-edge technology that helps them thrive socially and economically, while...
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New Research from IWPR Finds Low Literacy Hurts Women More Than Men
By Kevin Miller In an analysis of data from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy that was recently published, IWPR found that women earn less than men regardless of literacy level, but that...
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Living on a Dime: Small Wages and Large Gender Wage Gap in Restaurant...
By Margaret Kran-Annexstein If I were to tell you that there are workers in the United States being paid $2.13 per hour, you’d probably tell me that that’s impossible because the minimum wage in this...
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Facing the Wage Gap as a Female College Grad
IWPR Research Intern Vanessa Harbin by Vanessa Harbin As someone who considers herself to be pretty plugged in to gender issues, I have often heard the statistic about the ratio of women’s and men’s...
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Revisiting the Poverty Rate: New Measure Shows Less Inequality
By Jacqui Logan A recent IWPR fact sheet, “A Clearer View of Poverty: How the Supplemental Poverty Measure Changes Our Perceptions of Who is Living in Poverty” by Jocelyn Fischer, examines the recently...
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