Persistent Inequalities: Poverty, Lack of Health Coverage, Wage Gaps Plague Economic Recovery, Says Institute for Women's Policy Research
U.S. Newswire › August 30, 2005
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- 2004 marked another year of high poverty among female-headed families, with 28.4 percent, or nearly three in ten, of these households living in poverty, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Poverty has increased for the fourth year in a row, with five million additional people falling below the poverty line since 2000.
Between 2003 and 2004, the real median annual earnings of full- time year-round women workers shrank, for the second year in a row, to $31,233. Nevertheless, the gender wage ratio rose slightly to 76.5 percent, because men's earnings dropped more, by 2.3 percent, to $40,798. The number of people lacking health insurance in the United States grew by two percent between 2003 and 2004, to nearly 46 million people, or 15.7 percent of the population, lacking basic health insurance coverage.See the full content of this document
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Persistent Inequalities: Poverty, Lack of Health Coverage, Wage Gaps Plague Economic Recovery, Says Institute for Women's Policy Research
Dr. Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), stated, "The...
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