The 2015 report seeks to inform policy makers, organizations and community members about both the policies that promote equitable outcomes for all families and the policies that harm families.
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Breaking Barriers
This report on the state of healthcare in New Mexico uses original research from nearly 200 healthcare surveys, 16 in-person interviews, as well as data provided by healthcare.gov and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to understand how to increase enrollment and access to quality healthcare for more New Mexican families. Research and data partners for the report include Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM, Alliance for a Just Society, and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families
Led by Forward Together and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights with the support of Research Action Design and 20 grassroots partners, this report proves that the costs of locking up millions of people is much deeper than we think — when we lock up individuals we also break apart their families and communities. This new report reveals the overwhelming debt, mental and physical ailments and severed family bonds that are some of the hidden consequences of incarceration in the United States. The situation is dire, but a better approach is possible according to the report, which suggests critical and achievable family-centered reforms.
Senate GOP’s Plan for Planned Parenthood Takes Aim at Black Families
Healthcare access is crucial for Black women, particularly during pregnancy where we are four times as likely to die during childbirth than White women, are more likely to have high blood pressure, and more likely to die from breast cancer.
Workplace Leave in a Movement-Building Context
In the fall of 2014, organizational leaders from work-family, LGBTQ, labor and reproductive justice organizations explored workplace leave campaigns from a movement-building perspective. We hope this document will spark further thinking at the local, state and national levels so that an increasing number of campaigns will embody a movement building approach to win the strongest possible policies that create equity for everyone.
Abortions without scandal
Aside from being a black woman living in Washington, D.C., with questionable taste in Republican men, there isn’t much I have in common with the fictional political problem solver. But in this episode, she portrayed much of how I felt about my abortion at 19.
Study Shows Dangers to Women Blocked from Seeking Abortion Care
Nationally, less than two percent of women attempt to self-induce an abortion before traveling to a clinic. But in Texas, the amount is significant in comparison to the population because the Black female population there is 1.8 million, more than 51 percent of the 3.5 million Blacks in the state, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Trans Libertad Strength Power Justicia Hope Amor Resilience
Art created for Trans Day of Resilience 2015 by Adelina Cruz in collaboration with New Mexico Trans Women of Colour Coalition.
In the U.S., Black mothers need more than health care
While lack of access to health care has certainly contributed to maternal and infant death in the Black community, it doesn’t account for the extreme racial disparities seen in pregnancy-related outcomes. A growing body of evidence indicates that social, economic and psychological factors play a role as well.
Remember Trans Power, Fight for Trans Freedom
Art created for Trans Day of Resilience 2015 by Micah Bazant in collaboration with Audre Lorde Project.