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The executive branch can play an essential role in influencing, regulating and rewarding employer practices to improve workplace gender equity, safety and opportunity. Alongside legislative priorities, the next administration must pursue a range of executive actions to strengthen economic and health outcomes for all working people.

Public awareness about the devastating impacts of systemic and interpersonal racism has increased sharply with the escalation of racist violence and the COVID-19 pandemic’s disparate impact on communities of color.

Everyone should be able to weather a financial shock -- a major illness, a layoff -- without losing their housing or falling deep into debt. Everyone should be able to afford educational opportunities for themselves or their children and be able to retire with dignity and security. And every entrepreneur with a dream should be able to access the resources they need to start a new business and invest in their local economy. But a systemic racial wealth gap puts financial security, economic opportunity and community uplift out of reach for millions of Black people in the United States.

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.

This series connects the dots between how different socioeconomic factors affect maternal and infant health, the outsize impact these factors have on BIPOC communities, and recommendations to effect the change we need to ensure all moms and babies thrive.

The Problem: Many immigrants are denied access to health care, leaving moms and babies at risk

The Problem: The homelessness crisis is worsening and imperils pregnant people and their infants

The Problem: The lack of national paid leave compromises the health and well-being of pregnant people and their infants

The Problem: Our climate is getting hotter and it risks the health of moms and babies

The Problem: Violence against pregnant people inflicts lasting harm on them and their babies

More than 65 million women provide unpaid care in the form of child care, family care and eldercare during 2020. A majority of these women did so while holding full- or part-time jobs.

"I am honored to be here today to share our thoughts and concerns about ensuring that the broader implementation of telehealth works to reduce long-standing health inequities, and does not unintentionally exacerbate them."

FAQ | Answers to frequently asked questions about the Family And Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act).

Systemic racism is a fundamental, multilevel driver of pervasive health inequities in the United States. Racism threatens our nation’s health so deeply that the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and a growing list of U.S. cities, counties, and states have declared racism a public health crisis.

A guide to assessing whether research and policy advances health equity

A section-by-section summary of the Healthy Families Act, which would establish a national paid sick days standard.

Systemic racism is a fundamental, multilevel driver of pervasive health inequities in the United States. Racism threatens our nation’s health so deeply that the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and a growing list of U.S. cities, counties, and states have declared racism a public health crisis.

FACT SHEET | A fact sheet on legislation that would establish a national paid family and medical leave insurance program: the Family And Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY Act).

FACT SHEET | A look at what the wage gap means for Latinas, especially in the 25 states with the largest populations of employed Latina women.

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.