Women And Poverty Commentaries
"An end to poverty. A cure for divorce. The elimination of unwed pregnancy. Fifty years ago next month, when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the oral contraceptive, these were the highest expectations for it."
" With 40 percent of children born to unwed mothers today, and a growing marriage gap between wealthy and poor, we can't afford to go on pretending that strengthening marriage is a conservative or liberal cause."
Her displacement, followed by her struggle to get back on her feet in the four years since, has given her a unique perspective on poverty in America.
"Marx said she sympathized with the defendants' difficult lives, including poverty, fatherlessness and drug addiction. But none of those circumstances explains their lack of a 'moral code.'"
"Almost a fifth of all girls are poor. Thirteen percent of adult women live in poverty. Almost twice as many elderly women as elderly men are impoverished."
"Children with engaged dads are half as likely to experience depression, and only 25 percent as likely to drop out of school as children without dads. And single mothering is the greatest cause of childhood poverty"
"After having breast cancer, I know that affected low-income and working-class women need more help in battling the disease"
"Latin America's cultural problem is apparent in the persistent Latino high school dropout rate - 40 percent in California, according to a recent study - and the high incidence of teenage pregnancy, single mothers and crime"
"[U]ninsured women may receive prenatal and post-partum care at safety-net institutions such as city-funded clinics, federally qualified health centers, rural health programs, or other free clinics"
"[O]ur bishops also have ended up supporting economic and social policies which have greatly widened the gap between rich and poor, have promoted a culture of runaway greed and have pushed more and more women into poverty"
"[T]he Chicago area, the number of low-income, working single mothers jumped from 59,000 in 1990 to 85,000 in 2007"
"The closest emergency room is miles away. The clinic serves as a safety net for many residents who have urgent medical needs but lack the flexibility to keep regular doctor appointments"
"If a middle-class white girl goes missing, radio stations broadcast amber alerts, and cable TV fills the air with ''missing beauty'' updates. But 13-year-old black or Latina girls from poor neighborhoods vanish all the time"
"Now it's time for someone else to step up. There's plenty of wealth in Johnson County. Someone or some company should donate the money Van Kemseke needs to build her new headquarters"
"here in Atlanta and around the world, women and children have been experiencing their own economic crisis for decades"
"[A]bout 10 percent of Tennessee families fell below the poverty line, but, for families headed by a single mom with a child or children under 5 years old, the poverty rate was 50 percent"
"When so many people are struggling to make ends meet, we need everyone pulling together to solve our nation's problems and to lift up our fellow Americans. And this includes our young people"
"Because of the silence -- coupled with the limited access most low-income women have to quality health care -- cancer is often discovered in African-American women at late stages"
"At Whetstone Elementary, where 48 percent of students come from low-income families, 82 percent of third-graders and 90 percent of fourth-graders last year passed the state math test"
"A passion-for-fashion haven where teen girls help other teen girls do some serious retail therapy.We're not talking Goodwill hand-me-downs. Think more King of Prussia cool"
"CNN's Christine Romans speaks to Jacki Zehner of the Women's Funding Network, about the role women play in the economy"
"Give women equal pay for equal work - an act that would cut poverty in half"
"Women earn less, are less likely to own a business, are more likely to live in poverty than men and experience tremendous obstacles to good health and well-being"
"[O]ur patients represent all the highest-risk categories: the working poor, the newly immigrated, people living in long-term poverty and the unemployed"
"[I]t understands that many of these homes are led by single mothers who need some help to keep from being overwhelmed. While poverty is a problem, HIP knocks down some barriers that impede a student's performance"
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