The Economic Realities of Childcare
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The Male/Female Wage Gap: Lifetime Earnings Losses
Using Current Population Survey data from 1979-1996, the authors estimate the lifetime earnings losses to an average 25-year-old woman today who works full-time year round for 40 years compared with an average 25-year-old man, assuming recent earnings trends for women and men prevail in the future.
Stall in Women’s Real Wage Growth Slows Progress in Closing the Wage Gap
Analyzes 20 years of Current Population Survey data for women and men to track changes in the gender wage gap.
Single Mothers, Jobs, and Welfare: What the Data Tells Us
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Taxing Women — How the Tax Code Discriminates Against Women and Families
This Research-in-Brief summarizes an important new book by Edward J. McCaffery, professor of law at the University of Southern California Law School and the California Institute of Technology.
Single-Parent Families: Economic Survival and Welfare Reform
Can single parents on welfare find and keep jobs that enable them to support themselves and their families? Or will they need other sources of income in order to live above the poverty line?
Multi-State Research Projects Vol 1, Issue 7
As of July 1, 1997, all states will have submitted their new welfare plans to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, marking another milestone in the devolution of welfare from the federal government to state governments.
The Costs of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence has burst into the national spotlight relatively recently.
IWPR Welfare Reform Network News
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Workfare Vol 1, Issue 5
With the states facing a July 1, 1997 deadline to submit their welfare plans to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, many state officials are considering how they will meet the challenges of moving large numbers of welfare recipients into the workforce.
