Women and Poverty in America: Reports and Resources

Pediatric Association Calls for a War on Childhood Poverty - The Academic Pediatric Association (APA) has formed a task force on childhood poverty and issued "A Strategic Road-Map" for addressing childhood poverty. The Road-Map describes childhood poverty as the "most important problem facing children in the United States today.” (PDF) May 2013

House SNAP Proposal Threatens Grave Harm to Poor Single Parent Families - The Republican budget plan recently passed by the House on a party line vote would cut SNAP (Food Stamps) by $135 billion (almost 18%) over ten years, and would apply to SNAP the “welfare reform” principles that were applied to cash assistance by the 1996 law that created TANF to replace AFDC. (PDF) May 2013

Still Behind - Despite superior educational attainment, young women have lower incomes, wage rates, and employment rates. (PDF) March 2013

Women's Poverty in the United States, 2011 - The poverty report for 2011 released in 2012 by the Census Bureau indicates that the poverty rate was 15.0% in 2011, slightly less than the 15.1% rate in 2010, but well above the 12.3% rate in 2006, the year prior to the beginning of the ‘Great Recession. (PDF) September 2012

Attacks on Food Stamps - Legal Momentum has issued a statement in response to the recent attacks on the Food Stamp program explaining that the program provides vitally important food aid to help the needy achieve a nutritionally adequate diet. (PDF) January 2012

Single Mother Poverty in the United States in 2010 - Poverty is widespread and severe in single mother families. According to the Census Bureau data on poverty in 2010, people in single mother families had a poverty rate of 42.2% and an extreme poverty rate of 21.6%. (PDF) September 2011