California’s budget crisis has resulted in reduced services available from the two major programs designed to help pregnant and parenting teens graduate from high school — Cal-SAFE and Cal-LEARN.  Cal-SAFE is a voluntary program that provides school and community-based services for pregnant and parenting teens and child care and development... [Read More]

In 2012, getting pregnant can still cost you your job.  Thanks to a gap courts have opened between discrimination and disability laws, employers in other states are refusing to accommodate even simple requests that help workers maintain a healthy pregnancy.  For example, thanks to the pregnancy loophole, a retail sales associate in Salina, Kansas... [Read More]

Recent budget cuts to state health and human services programs such as Medi-Cal and CalWORKS will disproportionately affect women.  Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program and CalWORKs is the state’s welfare-to-work program.  About two-thirds of adult Medi-Cal beneficiaries are women and about 78% of adult CalWORKs beneficiaries are women. In... [Read More]