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Elyse Shaw

Using Grants to Promote Gender and Racial Equity in the Workforce

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Employment and Training

Equity and inclusion

• By: Eleanor Delamater, Ashlyn King, Kate Miceli, Elyse Shaw • September 28, 2023

Women's Bureau Director Wendy Chun-Hoon speaks at a podium with the Labor Department seal outdoors. The U.S. Capitol is visible in the background.

Learn how we use our grantmaking “superpower.”

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Building Back Better: Reimagining the Care Economy

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• By: Elyse Shaw • May 19, 2022

A mother and two children sitting and coloring.

Child care is an essential need for parents in the workforce: People can’t work if they don’t have the security that their families are being cared for. Due to generations of underinvestment in the care economy, many families faced difficulties accessing and affording child care even prior to the pandemic.

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Building Back Better: Centering Equity and Inclusion in Job Creation and Economic Development

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Special Initiatives

Equity and inclusion

Working families

• By: Elyse Shaw • February 14, 2022

A collage of working women in different occupations

Women and people of color are overrepresented in low-wage jobs that lack essential benefits. This is one of the biggest barriers to economic equity.

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