Thank you to Molly Freeman of Cohort D for sharing these!
Below are links to a slideshow of Forbes’ Top 10 Countries for Women and the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2011, upon which the ranking is based. The Report contains international facts and statistics that Conversation Leaders will find useful for presentations in various countries. We have added it to the CLIC's library of Key Policy Reports.
Also submitted by Molly was this comprehensive article by Frances Fox Piven on “The War Against the Poor,” an excerpt of which follows:
"Some facts: early in 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14.3% of the population, or 47 million people - one in six Americans - were living below the official poverty threshold, currently set at $22,400 annually for a family of four. Some 19 million people are living in what is called extreme poverty, which means that their household income falls in the bottom half of those considered to be below the poverty line. More than a third of those extremely poor people are children. Indeed, more than half of all children younger than six living with a single mother are poor. Extrapolating from this data, Emily Monea and Isabell Sawhill of the Brookings Institution estimate that further sharp increases in both poverty and child poverty rates lie in our American future."
For the full length article, click here: The War Against the Poor
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