A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back From The Brink
Introduction
Released January 12th, 2014
A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink will examine the rates of financial insecurity among American women and the children who depend on them, investigate the impact of it on our nation’s institutions and economic future, and promote modern solutions to help women strengthen their financial status.
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Chapters and Essays
Power
The Workplace
The Family
Education
Why We Must Push Back
The Nation Reimagined
Public Solutions
Private Solutions
Personal Solutions
It's Time to Push Back
Online Exclusives
Facts and Graphs
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Live Event
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HBO Documentary
10 Things You Can Do to Power a Woman’s Nation
Get The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink at www.ShriverReport.org. Read it, discuss it, implement it, and pass it on. Get smart. Build a stable foundation for your future by putting college before kids. Women with only a high school diploma are three to four times more likely to live on the financial brink than those with a college degree. Invest in yourself. Today’s wo
America’s Working Single Mothers: An Appreciation
I am honored to participate in a project that is trying to help single mothers who are struggling to make a living and raise their kids, because that perfectly describes my mother when I was growing up. You think LeBron James is a champion? Gloria James is a champion too. She’s my champion. My mother really struggled. She had me, her only child, when she was just 16 years old. She was on her own,
Gender Equality Is a Myth!
By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change. Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters e
A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink: Facts and Figures
One in three women in America are living in poverty or teetering on its brink. That’s 42 million women plus the 28 million children who depend on them. The American family has changed. Today, only one in five families has a homemaker mom and working dad. Two out of three families depend on the wages of working moms who are struggling to balance caregiving and breadwinning. The average woman c
The Chronic Stress of Poverty: Toxic to Children
The first time I met Anthony,[i] it felt like a kick in the stomach—literally. He was sitting on an exam table in my clinic, and as I leaned in close to examine him, he got scared, lost control, and wham! He got me. Anthony’s mother brought him in not just for his rash, but also because she had heard that we had a different way of doing things at the California Pacific Medical Center’s Bayview Chi
Introducing Life Ed
Warning: Reading about American women in 2014 may cause whiplash. Women today outnumber men on college campuses, in advanced degree programs, at the voting booth, and, increasingly, as breadwinners for their families. The majority of small business owners are women. They drive consumer spending, and by some measures outpace men as homeowners and even as car buyers. Women rule, right? Except that t
Introducing the Thrive Index
“We know low-income women are the backbone of our economy and of their families. We also know the challenges these women face are often quite different from those facing middle- and higher-income workers. These women on the brink are more likely to be younger, less well educated, without a partner, and raising kids. What they need—and what our economy needs—are supportive, flexible, Effective Work
A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink: Executive Summary
By Maria Shriver and Center for American Progress Edited by Olivia Morgan and Karen Skelton The most common shared story in our country today is the financial insecurity of American families. Today, more than one in three Americans—more than 100 million people—live in poverty or on the edge of it. Half of all Americans will spend at least a few months churning into and out of poverty during their
A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink: Charts and Graphs
These charts and data are originally from The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink in partnership with Center for American Progress. You can download a full version from January 12th – January 15th for free, right here!
Introducing the Shriver Corps
“National service as a strategy to address poverty dates back to 1964, when Sargent Shriver created the domestic Peace Corps equivalent called Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA, for President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.” – Shirley Sagawa, presidential appointee and advisor in the first Bush and Clinton administrations, and “the founding mother of the modern service movement,” in T