Data Brief Release: New Jersey’s Changing Population and Childcare Needs

August 24th, 2022|Comments Off on Data Brief Release: New Jersey’s Changing Population and Childcare Needs

By Sarah F. Small and Debra Lancaster. Like many parents in the United States, New Jersey parents have faced some formidable obstacles finding accessible quality childcare. This is particularly true given changes in the childcare landscape during COVID-19, as documented in our recent report [...]

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Data Brief Release: New Jersey’s Childcare Landscape During COVID-19: A Slow and Uneven Recovery

July 18th, 2022|Comments Off on Data Brief Release: New Jersey’s Childcare Landscape During COVID-19: A Slow and Uneven Recovery

By Sarah Small and Debra Lancaster. Many New Jersey parents felt the sting of reduced childcare access during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the childcare landscape has not made a recovery [...]

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Report Release: Pandemic’s Impact on Women in NJ: Domestic Violence, Access to Healthcare and Housing

May 19th, 2022|Comments Off on Report Release: Pandemic’s Impact on Women in NJ: Domestic Violence, Access to Healthcare and Housing

By Sarah Small and Debra Lancaster. With so much economic precarity brought on by the pandemic, many women in New Jersey have been confronted with issues of homelessness and inaccessible healthcare [...]

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How has COVID Affected Women and Work in New Jersey? Our New Report Investigates

April 27th, 2022|Comments Off on How has COVID Affected Women and Work in New Jersey? Our New Report Investigates

Sarah Small and Debra Lancaster. Women’s work lives have been disrupted in profound ways during COVID-19: in their roles as frontline workers confronting the virus, as caregivers taking on even more unpaid care work at home due to childcare disruptions [...]

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Report Release: COVID-19 and the Gender Wage Gap in New Jersey

March 24th, 2022|Comments Off on Report Release: COVID-19 and the Gender Wage Gap in New Jersey

With childcare disruptions, deep unemployment, and job changes, women in New Jersey have faced turbulent economic prospects worse than men’s along several dimensions throughout the pandemic. However, New Jersey women are no stranger to economic inequities [...]

Report Release: Enhancing Child Tax Credits’ Support of New Jersey’s Neediest Families

March 16th, 2022|Comments Off on Report Release: Enhancing Child Tax Credits’ Support of New Jersey’s Neediest Families

By Sarah Small and Debra Lancaster. Many New Jersey parents breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving their Child Tax Credit Payments in late 2021. Our new report at the Rutgers Center for Women and Work, in partnership with the New Jersey State Policy Lab [...]