This policy brief focuses on the OBBB’s impacts on women’s reproductive justice and health equity, specifically on the issues outlined in IWPR’s Promoting Access to Abortion and Maternal Health policy briefs. More than [...]

This brief is the sixth and final in IWPR’s series Birthing While Black: The Urgent Fight for Maternal Health Reform. It reviews the historical and current mechanisms for collecting and disseminating maternal health [...]

The ongoing crisis of Black maternal mortality is not only a personal tragedy but also a preventable loss with profound, lasting effects on children, families, and entire communities. This brief builds on others [...]

Across the economy, Black women are disproportionately channeled into jobs with low wages and high levels of stress, uncertainty, and physical risk. Today, more than 1 in 5 Black women in the labor market [...]