By Taegan Goddard
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A new GQR poll finds that young, white, married women prefer Sen. John McCain by one point, 47% to 46%, while young married women overall favor Sen. Barack Obama by 12 points, 53% to 41%.
However, young unmarried women prefer Obama by a stunning 48 point margin, 65% to 27%. That's a "marriage gap" of 36 points.
By Liz Weiss
New data released today by the Census Bureau shows a statistically significant increase in the national poverty rate in 2008. Most adults (18 and over) in poverty are women; 59 percent of adults in poverty are women; and 13 percent of all adult women are in poverty. Three-quarters of these women are women on their own—widowed, divorced, separated, or never married—despite being less than half (47 percent) of the population of adult women. These unmarried women have appreciably higher poverty rates than married women—20.8 percent versus 6.2 percent. Yet unmarried women live in a variety of situations—they may be living with partners, they may be mothers, they may be elderly—and each group has unique circumstances and needs. Indeed, poverty rates vary greatly for women by family status, age, and race.
Policymakers must ensure economic security for pregnant women and new mothers, write Melissa Alpert and Alexandra Cawthorne in the first of a new series from Center for American Progress.
Page Gardner of Women’s Voices. Women’s Vote says those voters historically shut out of power are an essential voice in progressive economic policy because it affects their lives the most.
They care about good jobs; they need health care; they want this country to take care of its children through education.
