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Through an expansion of the child tax credit passed earlier this year, about 90 percent of families with kids will start receiving the tax credit monthly in their bank accounts.
In the pandemic, women are abandoning health care jobs, citing burnout and decades of inequities in a system that was never designed to support them.
After years of being overworked, underpaid and harassed, the women who make up the vast majority of the nation’s restaurant workforce are demanding change.
The FDA authorized the Pfizer vaccine for those 12 to 15. Experts say that could help moms get back to work.
Student loans. Investing. Home ownership. These are big financial issues that Mandi Woodruff and Tiffany Aliche, hosts of the podcast Brown Ambition, addressed during a recent Live with The 19th event.
One year since the start of the women’s recession, hundreds of thousands of moms have been forced to leave their jobs — and grapple with the consequences.
Biden’s proposed American Families Plan includes historic investments in the child care industry, the country’s first universal paid family and medical leave program, and its first universal preschool program.
Women, especially women of color, are driving small-business growth during a pandemic in which they’ve been hit particularly hard — and missed out on help.
That investment, far more than what Biden has indicated he will seek, has support from other progressive lawmakers, per a letter shared first with The 19th.
In a memo first shared with The 19th, the administration argues the American Jobs Plan is critical to undoing the pandemic recession’s disproportionate impact on working women of color.