Consensus on Census: America's Stuck in Reverse

As of 2012, women who worked year-round and at full-time hours were still found to earn only 77 cents for every dollar of income flowing to men in the same position. Similarly, black and Latino households continue to have a significantly lower median income than their white counterparts. According to Slate's analysis, "14.5 percent of American women lived in poverty in 2012, compared to 11 percent of men. According to the National Women's Law Center, poverty rates are even higher for black women (25.1 percent are living in poverty) and Hispanic women (24.8 percent). Women are more likely to be poor than men at every age: Among people between the ages of 18 to 64, 15.4 percent of women are in poverty, compared to 11.9 percent of men. Above age 65, 11 percent of women are in poverty, compared to 6.6 percent of men."