Read this new piece on the Campaign for America’s Future blog by WVWVAF founder Page Gardner, about the effects of the slow economy on the Rising American Electorate – and particularly unmarried women: “As an organization, we focus on the RAE because it represents the New American Majority. It makes up 54 percent of all [...]

Unmarried women face constant challenges; their disproportionately small paychecks give rise to other issues that impact their everyday lives. With the economy continuing to be at the forefront of voters’ minds, those concerned with helping the most economically-distressed Americans would be well advised to listen to unmarried women and understand how correcting this disparity can [...]

Read a new opinion piece in Politico from WVWV-AF founder Page Gardner and Lake Research Partners president Celinda Lake on the importance of the Rising American Electorate in the 2014 midterm elections…

Concerns of Unmarried Women and Other Middle-Class Voters Remain Unaddressed Washington, D.C., March 25, 2013—A new poll taken just days before the Republicans released an “autopsy” report on their party shows that two-thirds of all voters disapprove of the Republican Congress and almost half give negative ratings to the Republican Party. The national survey by [...]

While women who work and raise families are in the news, check out this study about how policies shortchange single moms. By Timothy Casey & Laurie Maldonado “Worst Off – Single-Parent Families in the United States, A Cross-National Comparison of Single Parenthood in the U.S. and Sixteen Other High-Income Countries” is an exhaustive, critical analysis [...]

[Dr. Brenda Williams] and her geriatrician husband, Joseph Williams, run a local nonprofit encouraging parents to marry, and back in 2007 they decided to also help townspeople register to vote. Brenda went to housing projects, the jail, anywhere she was likely to find disenfranchised people. [...] Williams began to help people secure photo IDs, and [...]

Washington, D.C., February 27, 2013—Unmarried women are deeply opposed to the sharp cuts in the sequester and to a crisis approach to fiscal governance, according to a new study by pollster Stan Greenberg and the Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund (WVWVAF). Based on research conducted during the President’s State of the Union Address, swing [...]

UNMARRIED WOMEN VOTERS ENCOURAGED BY STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS Say President Obama Spoke to their Core Issues on Economy and Jobs Washington, D.C. – Feb. 13, 2013 -Unmarried women, a powerful voting bloc that helped ensure a second term for President Barack Obama, rallied behind the President’s State of the Union speech last night [...]

From Thomas B. Edsall in the New York Times… Single voters are more amenable than are their married counterparts to a government focused on social justice. Unmarried voters are substantially more vulnerable to economic downturns and the loss of a job; they look more favorably on such safety net programs as unemployment benefits, government-sponsored health [...]

“Pollster’s Analysis: Why women are not a voting bloc” J. Ann Selzer, Des Moines Register, November 3, 2012 “Obama’s Women Supporters and the ‘Marriage Gap’ Wild Card” Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast, November 4, 2012 “On Election Day, Single Women Could Sway the Vote” Elizabeth Flock, U.S. News and World Report, November 2, 2012 “Women [...]