Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate will debate the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, better known as the PRO Act. But there's nothing “pro-worker” about this bill. It's not pro-jobs, pro-flexibility, nor pro-freedom.

Here's what the PRO Act would do:

• subject 57 million freelance workers—nearly half of whom are women—to new employment structures they didn’t ask for or choose 
• reduce women’s ability to have a flexible career and schedule work around school, doctor appointments, and other priorities
• knock women out of the workforce, block others from re-entering, and make it harder to start small businesses

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Medical Professionals and School Districts Are Denying Girls Access To Mental Health Services

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The War on Foster Care

Tens of thousands of children in foster care across the country need substantial mental-health care, but policymakers who want to cut child-welfare budgets and activists who want to eliminate foster care altogether are making that help increasingly hard to come by. Many group homes serving kids with high-level mental-health needs are planning to close or shrink in the next few months, thanks to the Family First Prevention Services Act (2018).

Child Tax Credit Payments Hit 39 Million Households 

Last week, the government sent out checks in the mail (or direct deposit), called the Child Tax Credit. But it’s not another stimmy per se. Rather, it is another injection of cash into American households. What is it? Why are you getting it? Who is paying for it? To put it simply, the Child Tax Credit boost is not about the pandemic. President Biden and congressional Democrats are pitching it as an aid to families to defray the rising costs of child-rearing and everyday life. But it's so much more.