Resources

ISSUE BRIEF | Governmental attacks on women’s reproductive health are escalating, putting ideology above science. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has an opportunity to help remedy this dire situation, and to enable – rather than impede – people’s access to essential health care.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it abundantly clear that creating safe environments for work, care, and learning is vital to keeping people healthy and controlling the spread of the virus. Unfortunately, the administration and many state and local officials have ignored this reality by pushing to reopen physical school buildings without adequate safeguards to protect students, teachers, and staff. In the absence of clear, evidence-based protocols and the resources necessary to carry them out, teachers and parents are being forced to make impossible choices between their livelihoods, health, and the health of their students and children.

Four care models decisionmakers must implement for healthier moms and babies

The U.S. maternity care system fails to provide many childbearing people and newborns with equitable, respectful, safe, effective, and affordable care.

CHART | A summary of employers' newly updated or expanded paid family leave policies that includes their rationales.

Bipartisan legislation was enacted in the 115th Congress to support maternal mortality review committees and increase the supply of maternal health providers in underserved areas.

REPORT | Many communities across the country cannot trust the safety of their water and cannot afford to pay more for cleaner water. Frequently, Black, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, lower-income communities, rural communities, and communities living at the intersections of these identities struggle daily to access safe, affordable water, and their health is disproportionately harmed as a result.

Companion piece to the Clean Water report 2020

FACT SHEET | A national paid family and medical leave insurance program would provide mothers and fathers with much-needed pay when they need time off for family or medical reasons.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS | Emergency Paid Sick Days and Paid Leave for Child Care and Coronavirus (Traditional Chinese)

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS | Emergency Paid Sick Days and Paid Leave for Child Care and Coronavirus (Simplified Chinese)

EMPLOYER GUIDE | This guide recommends specific policies and practices that corporate leaders can implement quickly to support the safety and stability of their workforce.

A summary of existing state and local laws that require employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers.

FACT SHEET | The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the universal need for - and far from universal access to - paid sick days and paid family and medical leave in the United States.

FACT SHEET | The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the universal need for - and far from universal access to - paid sick days and paid family and medical leave in the United States.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS | Conoce tus derechos: Permisos pagados por enfermedad y permisos para cuidado infantil durante el coronavirus (Spanish)

With the coronavirus pandemic affecting nearly everyone in the country, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) provides many workers new rights to paid sick time and paid family leave.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, enacted and amended by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, provides new rights to workers for short-term paid time away from work for coronavirus-related health and caregiving reasons, and provides long-term emergency paid family leave for working people who need to take care of a child whose school or daycare is closed.

CHART | An analysis of the gender wage gap by congressional district (2020)

FACT SHEET | The wage gap illustrates the high cost women are paying for our nation’s policy failure, including our lack of paid family and medical leave to support family caregiving, which is still most often performed by women.