In today’s rundown: A Grantee Partner receives a huge check as part of a workforce development project in Virginia | Maryland’s child support guidelines may be overhauled for the first time in two decades | “Are We There Yet?” — a look a gender discrimination at work
— Hopkins House — a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner — was recently awarded a giant check — both in size and amount. The $250,000 check was presented by Rep. Jim Moran. The money will fund Hopkins House’s Early Childhood Learning Institute, which will help 100 low-income adults earn a Child Development Associate credential and 31 credits toward a college degree. Click here for more details.
— An overhaul of child support guidelines is on the jam-packed agenda of Maryland lawmakers, who have three weeks to wrap up the current legislative session. If the bill is passed, it would be the first major change to the child support guidelines since 1989. It would change the schedule used by courts to determine child support obligations and would be updated to reflect the realities of the current economy. Many noncustodial parents would end up paying more. Click here to read the details of the legislation.
— Three young, women journalists at Newsweek are taking a look at sexism in the workplace, comparing their experiences to those of a group of women who sued the magazine for gender discrimination in 1970. Click here to find out what’s changed and what hasn’t.
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