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Pennsylvania: Stop Insurers from Denying Essential Maternity Coverage to Women
Women in Pennsylvania need comprehensive maternity insurance coverage. While federal and state laws protect access to maternity coverage for many women who receive health insurance through their employers, there is no law ensuring maternity benefits to women in...
Divide and Conquer: The Wal-Mart Lawsuits Are Back
Four months after the United States Supreme Court, without ruling on the merits of the sex discrimination case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, told Betty Dukes and her co-plaintiffs that their lawsuit against Wal-Mart could not proceed as a nationwide...
Increasing Number of Homeless Women Veterans
The number of women veterans who become homeless after returning to civilian life is on the rise. This increasing rate of homelessness among women veterans is due to many factors that affect all genders who have served in the military such as brain injuries, drug and...
Scary News: PA ranks 13th in Nation for Rate at which Men Kill Women
It was just in time for Halloween when PennLive brought us some terrifying news about domestic violence homicide rates in Pennsylvania. Based on data collected in 2009, the rate of man-on-woman homicide in Pennsylvania is higher than it has been in the fourteen years...
PA Department of Public Welfare Blames the Poor and Penalizes the Disabled
On October 26, 2011, Tim Costa, the Executive Deputy Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare (DPW), testified about implementation of Governor Tom Corbett’s new state budget, which cut hundreds of millions of dollars from DPW programs that help the...
