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The payroll tax holiday provided a middle-class tax break yet Social Security advocates worried that it represented a hidden threat to the bedrock of older women’s retirements and are glad to see it go.
The GOP candidate’s wife seems to think that contraception isn’t an economic issue. That’s because she doesn’t have to worry about how another child could make it harder to pay her bills.
Warnings about women wielding their career clout against men at work and home are reactionary nonsense. They ignore research on dual-earner couples doing just fine, female supervisors promoting men, women’s wage stagnation, and more.
Women and children are driving up a homeless population that can’t afford to pay New York City’s high rents. One woman’s effort to leave a city shelter after almost three years shows the financial tightrope she must walk.
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Many grade school teachers enter the occupation believing it fits well with raising their own children. For one woman, who didn’t bank on being a single parent, the salary–particularly in West Virginia–isn’t enough. Grandparents are needed.
Create a global fund at the International Finance Corporation for female-run enterprises in renewable energy and expand the Global Banking Alliance for Women. Those were two “green economy” recommendations out of Rio +20 on Monday.
Women in Haiti report they have yet to recover economically in the two years after the earthquake. Memories of the disaster are still fresh, and the losses have left their incomes significantly smaller.
As I write this, I am humming the late Donna Summer’s hit “She Works Hard for the Money” and remembering the scenes from the video, featuring a middle-age single mother, an everywoman, scrubbing floors, waiting tables, running a machine in a garment factory, feeding her preteen kids and falling into bed exhausted.
Rosalina Miranda works at all hours of the day as a cleaner of warehouses and offices in New Jersey. After 15 years she’s unhappy about never getting a raise. Her best hope could be lawmakers now debating a proposed hike in the state’s minimum wage.