Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed. Clinton Touts Welfare Reform. Here’s How It Failed.
Clinton may be explainer-in-chief, but he left out the gaping hole welfare reform has made in the safety net.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy? A Middle-Class or Minimum-Wage Matriarchy?
If women really do become this country’s breadwinners, it’ll likely mean more families slip from the middle class.
Sep 6, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Middle-Class Secretaries Are Being Pushed Into Minimum Wage Work Middle-Class Secretaries Are Being Pushed Into Minimum Wage Work
Pink-collar jobs have been decimated right alongside declining blue-collar work.
Sep 4, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Women Backslide in Retail Jobs, Losing Yet Another Foothold in the New Economy Women Backslide in Retail Jobs, Losing Yet Another Foothold in the New Economy
It’ll be hard for women to win the future if they keep losing ground on their own turf.
Aug 27, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Can We All Just Get Along and Solve the Gender Wage Gap? Can We All Just Get Along and Solve the Gender Wage Gap?
National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru and I take our debate to real time.
Aug 24, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
For Some Women, Discrimination Prevents Return to Work For Some Women, Discrimination Prevents Return to Work
The myth that husbands need to be breadwinners is keeping some women from sharing equally in the recovery.
Aug 21, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Gender Wage Gap Yes, Virginia, There Is a Gender Wage Gap
If only the gender wage gap weren’t caused by discrimination. But the data says otherwise.
Aug 15, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Paul Ryan’s Budget Deals a Body Blow to Women’s Bottom Line Paul Ryan’s Budget Deals a Body Blow to Women’s Bottom Line
Where Mitt Romney has been vague, Paul Ryan has long been very specific about his support for policies that take a disproportionate toll on women.
Aug 13, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Cutbacks to Unemployment Insurance Came Long Before the Great Recession Cutbacks to Unemployment Insurance Came Long Before the Great Recession
Pulling back on support for the unemployed is just the latest side effect of state legislators’ decisions to dole out tax cuts.
Aug 6, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert
Will Women Get Pushed Off the Fiscal Cliff? Will Women Get Pushed Off the Fiscal Cliff?
Sequestration cuts will hit women fastest and hardest.
Jul 30, 2012 / Blog / Bryce Covert