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Report: Black women are working hard but ‘our country is not working for them’

06/08/2017 | Vanessa Williams | Washington Post

A new report about the nation’s black women paints a familiar portrait of a group that is working hard on many levels to achieve the American Dream but is still falling short.

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Social Conditions of Black Women in the US Revealed in Study

06/07/2017 | TeleSur | TeleSur

The National Domestic Workers Alliance and Institute for Women's Policy Research released a report titled, “The Status of Black Women in the United States," which compiles data collected from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Black Women in America Really Do Work Harder for Less, New Report Shows

06/07/2017 | Nora Caplan-Bricker | Slate

It’s a familiar adage that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts—and that black women, oppressed by the intersecting forces of sexism and racism, have to struggle even more. Now, a sweeping new report from the nonprofit Institute for Women’s Policy Research, funded by the National Domestic Workers Alliance, provides the data to back this up.

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