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Kate Gallagher Robbins
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Senior Fellow @npwf.bsky.social. Formerly CLASP, CAP, NWLC. Go Blue. High-altitude hiker living in the Land of Enchantment. She/her.
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The new jobs data are not the only concerning economic data from this fall. Our analysis of consumer sentiment data shows that women’s rating of the government’s economic policies has reached a nearly five-decade low. 6/9
Line graph entitled "Women's rating of the government's economic policies has once again hit an all-time low during the Trump era" showing men's and women's ratings from January 2024 through September 2025 of the question, "As to the economic policy of the government - I mean steps taken to fight inflation or unemployment - would you say the government is doing a good job, only fair, or a poor job?" The lines show that in 2024 men's ratings were on average lower than women's but both hovered between roughly 70 to 90. Beginning after January 2025 when President Trump took office, both men's and women's ratings plunged, though women's feel more steeply than men's, twice hitting 40 in April 2025 and September 2025. Since April men's ratings have been between 60 and 70.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Fresh off the presses with @jessicamason.bsky.social: Americans’ unpaid caregiving is worth more than $1.1 trillion annually – and women are doing almost two-thirds of the work. #CareCantWait nationalpartnership.org/if-americans...
Pie chart titled Americans' Unpaid Care Is Worth More Than $1.1 Trillion Annually showing the gender breakdown of the total value of unpaid care. About one-third of the pie, colored gold, is labeled Men $413 billion, and the remaining two-thirds, colored teal, is labeled women, $683 billion. Source: National Partnership analysis of American Time Use Survey, 2024. Based on an hourly wage of $16.38, the midpoint between mean wages for child care workers and home health/personal care aides per hour (BLS OEWS).
June 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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These chaotic, harmful policies are ruining the economy – and women know it. The data show women’s opinions of how the government is handling the economy are at a 50-year low 8/9
Line graph titled "Women's rating of the government's economic policies is the worst in nearly 50 years," showing women's sentiment about government economic policies monthly since January 1978. The line starts near 100 (the index point) and largely varies between about 60 and 120, climbing to its highest point around 140 in 1999, and dipping close to 60 around recessions in the late 1970s, early 1990s, and 2008 and its recovery. Between 2020 through 2024 it ranged from about 60 to around 110, and suddenly dropped to just 40 in April 2025. Source reads: National Partnership for Women & Families analysis of University of Michigan Survey of Consumers on the question "As to the economic policy of the government – I mean steps taken to fight inflation or unemployment – would you say the government is doing a good job, only fair, or a poor job?"
June 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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South London and Proud!
May 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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And women know who is to blame for this mess. Their rating of how the government’s doing fighting inflation or unemployment is the worst it’s ever been. 8/9 #NumbersDay
Line graph titled "Women's rating of the government's economic policies is the worst in nearly 50 years," showing women's sentiment about government economic polices monthly since January 1978. The line starts near 100 (the index point) and largely varies between about 60 and 120, climbing to its highest point around 140 in 1999, and dipping close to 60 around recessions in the late 1970s, early 1990s, and 2008 and its recovery. Between 2020 through 2024 it ranged from about 60 to around 110, and suddenly dropped to 43 just in March 2025. Source reads: National Partnership for Women & Families analysis of University of Michigan Survey of Consumers. "As to the economic policy of the government – I mean steps taken to fight inflation or unemployment – would you say the government is doing a good job, only fair, or a poor job?"
May 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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New Mexico United out here doing more to stand up against Trump’s policies than so many law firms and universities…
Image saying New Mexico United tickets = 100% Tariff-Free Image of a man with an American flag on a soccer pitch with text below outlining how to get tickets for a naturalization ceremony
April 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Black, Native and multiracial women are especially likely to be part of the #veteran women’s workforce. Trump and Musk’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion programs and civil rights protections especially impact these women veterans.
Bar chart entitled “Veteran women workers are especially likely to be Black, Native or multiracial” showing the racial and ethnic breakdowns for the overall women’s workforce and the veteran’s women workforce. The bar chart shows that white women’s share of the veteran women’s workforce is on par with their share of the women’s overall workforce, while Latinas’ and Asian American, Native Hawaiian and/or Pacific Islander women’s shares of the veterans women’s workforce are smaller than their shares of the overall women’s workforce. These bars are all light pink. There are three dark pink bars indicating that for Black women, American Indian/Alaska Native women and multiracial women their shares of the veteran women’s workforce are larger than their shares of the overall women’s workforce. There is a line indicating the cut off for overrepresentation in the veteran women’s workforce. The source note says “National Partnership analysis of American Community Survey, 2023. Racial groups do not include Latinas who are analyzed separately. Data include postal service workers.”
March 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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More than one out of every six working women veterans is employed by the federal government – a much higher rate than other groups. Trump and Musk’s attacks on the federal workforce and federal contractors will hit women veterans hard.
Bar chart entitled “Women veterans are especially likely to work for the federal government” showing the share of each workforce by gender and veteran status that is employed by the federal government. Among women veterans it is 17.4 percent compared to 11.1 percent for men veterans. Among non-veterans it is 2.2 percent for women and 2.1 percent for men. The source is the National Partnership analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
March 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Women’s share of the veterans’ workforce has nearly doubled since 2000, reaching an all-time high in 2024.
Line graph entitled “Women’s share of the veteran workforce is at an all-time high” The data from 2000 through 2024 show the share of employed veteran workers who are women. The share nearly doubled from 7.0 percent in 2000 to 13.8 percent in 2024. The source note reads “National Partnership analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.”
March 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This data purge is so far reaching they have even taken down the map of the U.S. Census regions...
Screenshot documenting the removal of the U.S. Census regions from the Census website. Screen shot of the Census regions as they appeared last week
February 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Kicking off 2025 with a new addition to the fam. Meet Victor!
Photo of me holding a beagle puppy in a car.
January 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Nursing and residential care jobs are still below their pre-COVID levels, child care jobs have just barely recovered, and home health care has soared, potentially showing a shift in how Americans are getting their care. #JobsDay
Line chart showing the change in employment since February 2020 for all non-farm jobs, home care, child care, and nursing and residential care jobs. The data is shown as a percentage of the employment level in February 2020. The biggest change is for child care jobs, dropping to -35% by April 2020, recovering only to -18% by February 2021, and not returning above February 2020 levels until November 2023. Nursing/residential care jobs declined more slowly through 2020, reaching their lowest level of -12% in January 2022, and even by March 2024 were still nearly 4% below the original level. Jobs overall declined by 14% from February to April 2020, recovered up to 0% by June 2022, and in March 2024 were nearly 4% above baseline. And home care jobs dropped to -7% in April 2020, recovered to baseline by October 2022, and in March 2024 were 12% above their February 2020 level. Source: National Partnership analysis of Current Employment Survey.
April 5, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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We are also watching #childcare jobs, which are still down more than 38,000 since COVID started. These jobs are essential. Congress can #SaveChildCare if they pass @POTUS’s new funding proposal to add $16B to the child care sector: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Line chart showing the percentage change in number of workers across all nonfarm jobs and the number employed in child care from January 2020 to October 2023. Both lines start at the zero percent baseline in early 2020, then dip sharply in March. Total nonfarm drops to minus 14.4 percent, recovers back to the baseline by June 2022, and reaches plus 3.0 percent by October 2023. Child care drops to minus 55.1 percent, increases to only around minus 23.1 percent by January 2021, then slowly increases, remaining below the baseline at minus 3.8 percent as of October 2023. Source: National Partnership for Women & Families analysis of Current Employment Statistics data, seasonally adjusted.
November 3, 2023 at 2:14 PM