Thread by @VABVOX

"With close to 100 million Americans living at or near the #poverty level, most of them women, are any of the Democratic candidates addressing the crisis?"

My latest investigation for @damemagazine. I hope you will read and share this important story.
damemagazine.com/2019/06/17/we-…

In my month-long investigation for @damemagazine, I spoke with women from every age and racial/ethnic group--poverty is female.

"One in 17 women lived in extreme poverty last year, living on $1.90 a day--in the U.S., not a developing country."

damemagazine.com/2019/06/17/we-…

"While the media usually presents single mothers as the face of poverty, over half of all poor adult women—54 percent—are single and childless."

One of the surprising statistics I uncovered during this investigation on women and poverty.
damemagazine.com/2019/06/17/we-…

"#Abortion is another factor in #poverty.
The cost of an abortion can catapult a woman into poverty and recent studies show that nearly half of women who seek abortions live below the poverty level."
#StopTheBans
damemagazine.com/2019/06/17/we-…

"Elderly women are 80 percent more likely to live in poverty than men due to the wage gap, longevity and time spent out of the workforce to raise children."
damemagazine.com/2019/06/17/we-…