A report on women and poverty 50 years after President Johnson famously declared war on poverty in the United States in his January 8, 1964 State of the Union Message.
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Drawing extensively from the National Judicial Education Program’s publication Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided in an Adult Victim Sexual Assault Case , the University of Pennsylvania developed a guide titled Sexual Misconduct Complaints: 17 Tips for Student Discipline Adjudicators, intended as a template for adaptation by individual nonprofit colleges and universities.
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A letter submitted to the House Committee on Education & the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections applauding the work done to ensure that federal contractors comply with Executive Order 11246.
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Information about the National Judicial Education Program's role in the origination of state and federal Task Forces on Gender Bias in the Courts around the country.
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The growth in poverty in 2012 reflects the continuing impact of the great recession that began in 2007. Poverty disproportionately affects women and children.
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A statement to the Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means to be included in the record of the Subcommittee’s April 22, 2010 Hearing on the "Role of Education and Training in the TANF Program."
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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.
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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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Many domestic violence victims report losing their housing due, at least in part, to the violence in their lives. Several jurisdictions have enacted laws specifically indicating that domestic violence victims are protected from housing discrimination.
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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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