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Women’s median earnings are lower than men’s in nearly all occupations, whether they work in occupations predominantly done by women, occupations predominantly done by men, or occupations with a more even mix of men and women.

The Recovery Act allocates funds to increase the benefit amount for those receiving unemployment compensation, provide benefit extensions for those who have already exhausted their state UI benefits, and provide up to $7 billion in federal financial incentives for states to "modernize" their Unemployment Insurance (UI) laws, including providing coverage for unemployed workers who are escaping domestic violence.

More Money for Unemployed Workers

Some federal help for unemployed workers is automatic under the Recovery Act and has already begun taking effect:

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This is a list of organizational, legislative, and trade-related acronyms and terms contained in the annotated entries of this special collection.

This report offers information on challenges, prevention, and treatment of IPV in immigrant and refugee communities. It includes recommendations and summaries for future work and funding efforts.

This short fact sheet talks about how sexual abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) inmates constitutes one of the most rampant and ignored human rights violations in the U.S. today.