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This year's Equal Pay Day denotes when women finally make as much as white men made in all of 2020—the gap is even worse when broken down by race and ethnicity.
AAPI women have to work more than 14 months to match what white, non-Hispanic men make in just one year.
This year we celebrate Black History Month amid a set of unparalleled crises: the continuing COVID-19 public health emergency and a deepening economic recession.
By Rosa M. García, Molly Bashay, and Asha Banerjee
This Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Asha Banerjee discusses the AAPI community's immense achievements in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and the systemic racism and hardship AAPI workers and families regularly face.
This blog post presents 10 policy changes Congress should make in the next coronavirus pandemic stimulus bill to improve the fiscal stability of states and institutions of higher education, continue to provide much-needed emergency aid to students, and maintain college affordability.
This blog post examines what the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act does for students with low incomes and higher education overall.
This Women's History Month, Asha Banerjee and Rosa García write about their respective grandmother and mother to accentuate the power and necessity of postsecondary education for women, particularly women of color.
The unprecedented global coronavirus crisis is taking a financial toll on everyone, but struggling student loan borrowers are particularly at risk. Women and students of color, especially women of color, carry the vast majority of student debt. As schools and businesses shutter, threatening many low-wage workers’ jobs, the pandemic will only exacerbate borrowers’ financial instability. It warrants robust federal action.
Black labor has been foundational to the growth of America and our economy.