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Women and poverty.
Women bear the brunt of poverty in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of adults who are poor are women, and more than half of poor families are headed by a single woman. (14) For many of these women, life is a constant and often lonely struggle to provide the most basic necessities--shelter and food--for themselves and their children. Finding decent housing and raising their children in neighborhoods free of crime and drugs are remote possibilities for many impoverished women. Even such minimal expenses as a child's school picture, use of a laundromat or bus fare are beyond the means of some desperately poor women. (15)
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