This report compares U.S. single-parent families with single-parent families in 16 other high-income countries. We find that single-parent families in the United States are the worst off.
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This module guide describes our free web course on Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse for judges and justice system professionals.
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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%.
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Annual reports on poverty in the US consistently fail to highlight the persistent gender poverty gap. Our analysis of the data details the nature and extent of the gap between men and women. New 2010 Census data shows that poverty has risen and that women continue to be much more likely to be poor than men.
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In 1996, the federal government "ended welfare as we know it," replacing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program. This report demonstrates that TANF has shredded the safety net.
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Interpersonal violence often jeopardizes a victim’s ability to keep a job. This statistical analysis shows how women who are victims are more likely than other women to be unemployed, to suffer from health problems that can affect employability and job performance, to report lower personal income, and to rely on welfare.
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This report explores the problems of single mothers in the last decade and finds that increased joblessness and decreased access to welfare benefits have significantly exacerbated poverty and hardship for this group.
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This checklist of recommended provisions offers guidance for companies developing and implementing their own domestic violence policy, which is an important means of complying with the relevant laws and keeping your workplace safe and your employees working.
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The USDA published the Obama Administration's "Stakeholder Guide" to end childhood hunger, which advocates for increasing the rate at which eligible children participate in Food Stamps and other child nutrition programs but fails to mention child poverty.
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The Census Bureau poverty data for 2009 show the largest number of poor people in the 51 years that poverty has been measured, 43.56 million, and the highest overall poverty rate, 14.3%, since 1994. The growth in poverty in 2009 reflects the continuing impact of the great recession that began in 2007.
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A new report by Legal Momentum demonstrates the serious harm financial sanctions cause Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients. These penalties are very common and many are imposed erroneously or for extremely minor violations, burdening the nation’s neediest families with even greater hardship.
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Federal TANF policy continues to place barriers in the way of the single mothers receiving TANF who wish to go to school even though 40% of TANF recipients have not completed high school.
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