Editorial:
From PolitiFact Ohio [1]:
PolitiFact Ohio decided to focus on this simple statement about the economic plight of women.
Kaptur’s communications director Steve Fought provided PolitiFact Ohio with U.S. Census data and a National Women’s Law Center report to back up his boss’s statement.
The numbers indeed show that the poverty rate for women in the United States was 14.5 percent in 2010, which was 3.3 percentage points higher than for men.
Women also fared worse when comparisons were made within ethnic groups, such as white (non-Hispanic), black, Hispanic, Asian and native American. For instance, slightly more than 25 percent of all African-American women were in poverty in 2010, compared with 19.1 percent for African-American men.
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Source:
PolitiFact Ohio
URL:
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2012/mar/26/marcy-kaptur/rep-marcy-kaptur-says-poorest-america-are-women/
Date:
March 26, 2012
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