Women in Poverty @WGSSPovertyFact
Raising awareness about women in poverty Joined April 2014-
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In Connecticut 81% of poor families with children are not married.
1 in 4 North Carolina children lives in poverty
Women and girls in rural Sub-Saharan Africa and other underdeveloped regions must walk 6 miles a day to get water which is often dirty
Nearly one in five women is now living without health insurance. #UConnPovertyFacts
Single mothers are having the hardest time of all. More than 40 percent of women who head families are now living in poverty.
In 2011, men with bachelors’ degrees earned more than women with graduate degrees.
96% of single mothers say paid leave is the workplace reform that would help them the most.
More than half of the babies born to moms who are under 30 are born to unmarried mothers.
Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women, and these workers often get zero paid sick days.
1 in 3 American women, 42 million women, plus 28 million children, either live in poverty or are right on the brink of it.
Poverty rates are higher for women than men. In 2007,13.8 percent of females were poor compared to 11.1 percent of men.
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