There has been a large gender poverty gap in every year since the official poverty standard was created. In 2009, adult woman were 32 percent more likely to be poor than adult men, with a poverty rate of 13.9% compared to a 10.5% rate for adult men.
Workplace Equality and Economic Empowerment
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Letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urging Secretary Sebelius to solicit public comments in advance of TANF's reauthorization
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This report, later published in Domestic Violence Report 65 (June/July 2009), explains the connection between economic and personal security for women and family assistance, and focuses on the critical role that family assistance plays in enabling poor women and families to escape abuse and overcome poverty.
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This Report details and analyzes the sharp drop in participation of eligible poor women and children following the adoption of federal welfare reform which encouraged states to cut welfare rolls.
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Determined whether a Suffolk County Park Police Department policy that penalizes pregnant women is discriminatory.
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This article makes the case that recognizing and addressing the needs of all survivors in the workplace is critical both as a business and economic imperative and as a means of strengthening the American workforce.
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Statement submitted to the New York State Assembly Committee on Social Services on November 20, 2008 for a Public Hearing on NY State’s TANF Funded Welfare-to-Work Program
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A class action lawsuit alleging that labor recruiters engage in sex discrimination against Mexican women by placing them into an inferior guestworker visa classification.
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Concerned the employment rights of domestic violence victim who was fired for missing two days of work after she was attacked by her boyfriend.
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A large gender pay gap still continues even though women workers are now more educated than men. Women at every educational level continue to earn much less than men at the same level, and almost always even less than men at the educational level below them.
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A report on how universally-available, quality early education would benefit taxpayers and the community and serve as a cost-effective economic investment.
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A statement submitted to the Committee on Ways and Means' hearing on the Economic and Societal Costs of Poverty held on January 24, 2007.