Quote of the Day, March 13, 2013, excerpted from Sandberg Left Single Mothers Behind by Susan Faludi on CNN Opinion, with production assistance from the Economic Hardship Reporting[...]

The doors of the Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco don’t open until 7 am, but on the Saturday morning I was there, a dozen or so people were already lined up by 5[...]

It was the week before Thanksgiving and Dr. Willie Parker was making small talk with a group of patients at an abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi. “What are your plans f[...]

Quote of the Day, November 21, 2012:  from a new TurnAway study which reveals an interesting finding that women who had abortions were less likely to suffer poverty : According to [...]

Quote of the Day – November 8, 2012 The data show that across the OECD’s 34 developed nations, on average more women were poor than men at every age in 2008, with an ev[...]

Quote of the Day – October 24, 2012 Domestic violence is a leading cause of homelessness — for women, in particular, as well as unaccompanied youth. In 2011, the U.S. C[...]

Wince of the Week September 28, 2012:  Our EHRP team winced when we read this story, recounted by Alice Gomstyn on abcnews.go.com   Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to f[...]

The Lipstick Profiteers Mary Kay’s biggest revenue source may be the dreams of its own pink-clad sales force. Originally posted at OtherWords and reprinted with permission. B[...]

Quote of the Day, August 1, 2012 New U.S. health insurance plans are required beginning Wednesday to provide new preventive benefits at no cost to covered women as part of healthca[...]

Quote of the Day, June 14, 2012 “And we’ve got to understand this is more than just about fairness…. Women are the breadwinners for a lot of families, and if they[...]