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COVID-19 Showed the Need for Paid Leave & Wage Increases for Working Women of Color

By Jamie Buell and Sally Sim / May 18, 2021 / Views / 4 minutes of reading

The lack of equity in income and wealth shapes the way women of color can respond to social and financial crises, sometimes escalating minor financial setbacks into an array of economic hardships which make a recovery difficult. Women of color are, unfortunately, at the center of economic inequality and most in need of paid leave and wage increases.

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COVID-19’s toll on mental health

By Christina Miller / May 13, 2021 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

How is your stress level? Are you feeling anxious? If you answered pretty high or yes, you are not alone. The pandemic’s impact on mental health is significant and well-documented.

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Like Paid Leave, Care Infrastructure Isn’t Optional. It’s An Essential Element of A Just Economy.

By Vicki Shabo / May 10, 2021 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

As the United States builds back from COVID-19, policymakers must invest in policies the country’s workers needed long ago to help support parents, family caregivers and all working people – especially women, women of color, and people who work in lower-wage jobs that do not offer benefits.

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COVID-19 Deepens Maternal Health Disparities Among Women of Color

By Raashmi Krishnasamy and Lisa Shapiro / May 3, 2021 / Views / 4 minutes of reading

Recent evidence suggests that the syndemic of COVID-19 and systemic racism has exacerbated racial maternal health disparities and has specifically worsened Black maternal health.

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Women and COVID-19 Financial Recovery: Understanding Stigma and Financial Services Deserts

By Dr. Maura Scott and Martin Mende / April 26, 2021 / Views / 4 minutes of reading

Understanding the distinct consumer needs of different consumer segments is fundamental to engaging with individuals who experience financial vulnerability and stigma as they approach a post-pandemic financial recovery. Organizations can help to play an important role in supporting customers with their personal financial recovery.

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Guaranteed Income Programs: A Potential Lifeline for Low-Income Women of Color in Crisis

By Vinu Ilakkuvan / April 19, 2021 / Views / 4 minutes of reading

Low-income women of color in America bear the weight of racism, sexism and classism – both in their interactions with other people, and more insidiously, baked into the nation’s policies, systems and cultural assumptions.

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The BIPOC Caregiver

By Namatie Mansaray / April 12, 2021 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

Our care systems, deeply rooted in racial and gender inequities for those providing paid and unpaid care work, are in need of an overhaul.

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Women need child care; child care needs to change

By Karen Kali / April 5, 2021 / Views / 6 minutes of reading

Having access to affordable child care is essential to having labor force participation from women, who, due to sexist societal and traditional gender roles combined with lower wages than men, struggle between workforce participation or the care and education of their children.

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For women entrepreneurs, one daunting obstacle to recovery from the She-Recession will be barriers to credit

By Anneliese Lederer / March 29, 2021 / Views / 4 minutes of reading

Entrepreneurship is not a successful venture without the right tools. One of these tools is access to credit – the money needed to start a business, expand or deal with ebbs and flows in revenue.

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Women of Color, Wealth and COVID-19

By Sally Sim and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad / March 22, 2021 / Views / 4 minutes of reading

Overrepresentation in consumer-facing jobs, poverty and lack of wealth are all aspects that put women of color in high levels of physical and financial danger during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Women in Crisis: NCRC launches a popup publishing series about America’s First Female Recession.

By Anneliese Lederer and Karen Kali / March 22, 2021 / Views / 3 minutes of reading

Over the coming weeks, we’ll publish essays from NCRC staff, members, local leaders and national partners who can give a voice to the concerns, issues and solutions for women, specifically Black, indigenous and women of color, who have been living through and managing this health and economic crisis for the past year.

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