This isn't about fraud. It's about punishing families in a desperate attempt to score political points.
Starving children and keeping them from seeing doctors (while billionaires continue to get massive tax breaks) is inhumane and cruel, plain and simple.
The people behind Project 2025 just dropped a new agenda that seeks to coerce women into marriage by restricting our independence.
Read @nwlc.org fact sheet on Project 2026 here:
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"This is all stemming from the fact that Donald Trump has attacked our community.”
The disability and LGBTQ+ communities have come a long way. Earlier this month, we brought together more than 100 groups, including those fighting for disability rights & justice, to urge this administration to drop this discriminatory proposed rule attacking trans people.
Read our letter:
Last month, Secretary Kennedy had a press conference where he claimed that the original intent of the ADA was to exclude trans people. So I asked a bunch of experts and someone who was actually there.
"In effect, it returns the VA to what was once the most extreme abortion ban in the country—an outright prohibition on care and counseling that applies to every VA facility nationwide, regardless of state law."
Read more about the VA's draconian new rule below ⬇️
Veterans and our families deserve futures built on compassion, justice, and love—not fear.
The Department of Veterans Affairs imposed a near-total ban on abortion with a new rule quietly published on New Year’s Eve. https://cnn.it/4qSUwHO
The first time it happened, a man was outside the day care recording. “There’s nobody here,” he was saying into the camera on his phone.
“Can I help you?” she asked him. The man said he was there because of Nick Shirley’s video. He wanted to see the children.
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“Does he want to get to the kids? Does he want to shoot us?” 19thnews.org/2026/01/minn...
Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. They ended it at 7.3 percent — the highest rate in four years.
Black women’s unemployment is now equivalent to White women’s rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession. https://bit.ly/45uZOk3
...Tucker, who has been tracking the data for years, said the implications won’t stop with Black workers.
“It’s going to be obvious to us when we declare the recession that the signs were there,” she said. “Black women were a sign and we sort of ignored it.” @nwlc.org
Black women’s unemployment is now equivalent to White women’s rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession. @chabeli.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
The EEOC’s move to toss the guidance out will be most immediately felt by LGBTQ+ workers, experts told The 19th, but it will also have broader implications for anyone who experiences harassment related to their gender, race or ethnicity while they’re at work.
The women of Congress — plus Paris Hilton — gathered today to rally for the DEFIANCE Act, which would give survivors of nonconsensual explicit deepfakes the option to sue perpetrators directly. @gracepanetta.bsky.social was live from Capitol Hill for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/01/pari...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, on Thursday voted 2-to-1 to rescind years-in-the-making guidance that the agency released in 2024 on applying current civil rights laws to workplace harassment.
@amandabecker.bsky.social reports for @19thnews.org.
"Pregnant people will be living under heightened surveillance and scrutiny, and that may change their behavior in ways that aren't healthy for them or for the pregnancy," said Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at @nwlc.org
Women have made gains since many were forced out of the workforce during the pandemic. But that could be changing. f-st.co/BEV7YBN
Pregnancy-related prosecutions are on the rise in states with abortion bans. www.axios.com/2026/01/15/p...
December Jobs Report: Women Account for All Monthly Labor Force Losses WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) jobs report, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) found that 81,000 people aged 20 and over left the labor force in December meaning they are now neither working nor looking for work. These losses were all among women: 91,000 women aged 20 and over left the labor force last month while 10,000 men aged 20 and over joined the labor force last month. Over 2025, among those 20 and over, women's labor force size increased by just 184,000 while men’s increased by 572,000. This means men joined the labor force at three times the rate of women last year, and women’s gains in 2025 are but a fraction of the gains women have made in previous years.
91,000 women age 20 and older left the labor force in December, while 10,000 men joined it, per @nwlc.org
“We literally save empty paper towel rolls for our art projects,” one provider said. “[This] will destabilize our entire budget.”
“It really is destabilizing and terrifying and not at all furthering the goal of enabling more families to have the child care they need." -- Amy Matsui, vice president of child care and income security at @nwlc.org
How did unsubstantiated claims of child care fraud go from a YouTube video to influencing federal policy in a matter of days? The answer lies at the intersection of actual pandemic-era fraud cases, a right-wing media ecosystem, and a longstanding conservative antipathy toward subsidized day care.
RFK Jr. could defund your hospital if he doesn’t get his way on trans healthcare
Yesterday, people across the country went to the polls, and they chose hope.
With historic firsts and wins across the country, voters everywhere cast out hatred in hope of a better future—a future with reproductive freedom, universal child care, and civil rights.
This video is devastating. Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to learn that ICE took a beloved caregiver in front of the children minutes after. Imagine going to work to care for beloved children, only to be ripped away from them and your own family by ICE.
Polls & ballots resoundingly show that abortion access is popular in the U.S. Yet extremists are waging a coordinated attack to dismantle reproductive freedom. Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO of @nwlc.org, joins us to discuss the status of abortion access, what’s ahead, & what brings her hope.
News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
The gender wage gap widened in 2024 for the second year in a row, marking a blow to women's pay equity efforts nationwide. bit.ly/4pim9JL
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For the second year in a row, the gender pay gap has widened— a first since the government began tracking data on income around the 1960s. https://bit.ly/3I3MUku
