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Building a Better Future for Women and Their Families
National Women's Law Center - A Platform for Progress
Strengthening Income and Work Supports
Poverty is largely a women's issue. Over 14 million women - one in eight - live in poverty. Single mothers, women of color, and elderly women are especially vulnerable. More than one in three single mothers, more than one in five African American and Latina women, and one in five elderly women living alone are poor. Several factors contribute to the high rate of poverty among women, including unequal opportunities in education and employment, the high numbers of women who work in jobs that do not provide adequate wages and benefits, the time many women devote to unpaid family caregiving, domestic violence and other barriers to employment, insufficient child support, and the recent erosion of many other supports for poor women and their families.
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