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Christina Coleman-Lovelace, a community outreach and resource planning specialist in the Wage and Hour Division’s Birmingham, Alabama, District Office, shares how her family’s civil rights legacy inspired her career in public service.

Want Equal Pay? Get a Union.

Wendy Chun-Hoon, Liz Shuler
Union approval is the highest it has been in nearly 50 years, with 60 million non-union workers saying they would vote for a union if they could. Now is the time to act.

Black Women’s Economic Recovery Continues to Lag

Sarah Jane Glynn, Mark DeWolf
Recovery has been uneven across demographics. Black women have faced the slowest recovery, with 2.6% fewer adult Black women employed in December 2021 than February 2020.