Comments to Chairman Tom Harkin and other members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and the Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety on the legislation to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act. The comments suggest that:
The definition of “individuals with barriers to employment” should be expanded to include individuals preparing for nontraditional occupations.
Workplace Equality and Economic Empowerment
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Several states have proposed or enacted laws allowing employers to apply for restraining orders to prevent violence, harassment, or stalking of their employees. The laws vary in significant ways, such as whether the employer may seek a restraining order or injunction on behalf of itself rather than on behalf of the employee and whether an employee who is the target of violence must be consulted prior to the employer’s seeking a restraining order.
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There are still virtually no women in the federally created and supervised apprenticeship system for the skilled construction trades.
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Statement submitted to the House Committee on Ways and Means to be included in the record of the Subcommittee on Human Resource February 28, 2013 hearing on “Waiving Work Requirements in the TANF Program”.
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This report compares U.S. single-parent families with single-parent families in 16 other high-income countries. We find that single-parent families in the United States are the worst off.
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Poverty is widespread and severe in single mother families. According to the Census Bureau data on poverty in 2010, people in single mother families had a poverty rate of 42.2% and an extreme poverty rate of 21.6%.
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Statement to the House of Representatives urging Congress and the Obama Administration to move forward with comprehensive reauthorization legislation that will increase federal funding and raise participation rates and benefit levels in TANF.
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Annual reports on poverty in the US consistently fail to highlight the persistent gender poverty gap. Our analysis of the data details the nature and extent of the gap between men and women. New 2010 Census data shows that poverty has risen and that women continue to be much more likely to be poor than men.
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A letter to the Department of Labor applauds their proposal to collect updated information about the Family and Medical Leave Act and suggests minor changes to enhance the quality and clarity of the information collected.
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In 1996, the federal government "ended welfare as we know it," replacing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program. This report demonstrates that TANF has shredded the safety net.
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Interpersonal violence often jeopardizes a victim’s ability to keep a job. This statistical analysis shows how women who are victims are more likely than other women to be unemployed, to suffer from health problems that can affect employability and job performance, to report lower personal income, and to rely on welfare.
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This report explores the problems of single mothers in the last decade and finds that increased joblessness and decreased access to welfare benefits have significantly exacerbated poverty and hardship for this group.
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