claim: "we have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."
author: maxey scherr
evidence_1: oct 8, 2008 ... women in america are more likely to be poor than men. over half of the 37  million americans living in poverty today are women. ... and women is wider in  america than anywhere else in the western world. ... over a quarter of black  women and nearly a quarter of latina women are poor. ... what can we do?
evidence_2: apr 5, 2017 ... women make up almost half of the workforce, yet they continue to earn less than  men on average in nearly every ... the number of children with working mothers  living in poverty would be nearly cut in half, dropping from 5.6 million to 3.1  million. ... pay inequality stifles growth of the united states economy.
evidence_3: sep 24, 2015 ... “we have more people living in poverty today than almost any time in the ... time,  such as the more than 200-year history of the united states.
evidence_4: "by almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. ... worse, they  were trapped in poverty, with no hope of moving up. .... since 1960, the life span  for women in sub-saharan africa has gone up from 41 to 57 years, ... agenda  near to completion will do more to improve human lives than anything else we do .
evidence_5: sep 11, 2018 ... he had been a functional crack addict for most of her life, working as a ... she  would ask vanessa to take her children somewhere else. ... (the answer is  almost certainly, yes, you can.) ... if the federal minimum wage tracked  productivity, it would be more than $20 an hour, not today's poverty wage of  $7.25.