The Child Care and Development Fund, the U.S. government's main source of funding to help low-income families pay for childcare, serves over 1.6 million children in a typical month.

The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.

Climate vulnerability depends on intersecting factors, such as gender, a topic missing from much global climate discussion.

The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.

If the next 250 years are to look different from the last, universal childcare must become a democratic guarantee, not a private burden.

In places like Montana, Alabama, Georgia and Arizona, women of color are campaigning to become utility commissioners. If they win, they’ll bring much needed representation to their communities.

Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.

The accusations against Rep. Eric Swalwell — and his swift resignation after they became public — are driving a renewed focus on sexual misconduct and abuse in Washington.

As Trump sends billions to war in Iran, families struggle to afford childcare and states are left without the funding to provide it.

Ahead of midterm elections, some states are putting into effect new measures, including requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Single mothers, many of whom are commuting to work and shuttling their kids around, are among the hardest hit by rising gas prices due to the Iran war.

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As Congress revives the SAVE Act, new proof-of-citizenship rules could reshape voter registration in ways that burden women voters.

They already face the highest rates of asthma-related mortality in the nation. Dirtier air will make that worse.

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.

The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.

Recent research suggests that the price of child care shapes fertility decisions like whether and when to have children, and how many to have.

A sweeping, year-one rundown of how Trump’s second-term power grabs and policy rollbacks are eroding women’s rights, healthcare and economic security, including—from dismantling the Women’s Bureau at ...

Freezing childcare and social-services funding exposes how Trump-Vance's “pro-family” agenda relies on pushing women out of the workforce.

As Democrats campaigning on affordability pick up wins, Trump's messaging about a strong economy is at odds with widespread voter sentiment that he's not doing enough to tackle rising costs.

Food banks will face logistical and financial challenges in providing the resources currently offered by the SNAP and WIC programs that are set to lose funding.