The poverty rates for women, like poverty rates overall, remained at historically high levels in 2012, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released in September 2013. Women’ poverty rates were once again substantially above the poverty rates for men. More than one in seven women – nearly 17.8 million – and more than one in five children – over 16 million – lived in poverty in 2012. More than half of all poor children lived in families headed by women.
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