Joan Entmecher writes at the National Women’s Law Center blog: “The Social Security Trustees released their annual report on Social Security’s finances today. Though you wouldn’t know it from reading some of the media coverage, the hard facts show that w…
Sabrina Tavernise writes for The New York Times: “Researchers have known for some time that life expectancy is declining for the country’s least educated white women, but they have not been able to explain why. A new study has found that the two factors…
Katie McDonough writes for Salon: “A new Pew Research report on the economies of emerging markets reveals that nearly a quarter of all Americans are struggling to afford food, putting the United States far out of step with other wealthy nations, as Pew n…
Women and men pay the same amount for their college degrees, but they often do not reap the same rewards.
The number of women with high amounts of student loan debt has increased — from 38 to 53 percent from 2001 to 2009.