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In the Washington metropolitan region, nearly half a million women and girls are living in or near poverty. We all have a stake in building the economic security of our region’s women and girls. The Women’s Foundation works to mobilize our community and provide solutions to eliminate the persistent barriers that disproportionately hinder women and girls from achieving economic security.

Dear Washington Post: When Will Gender Discrimination Be Off the Menu?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Washington Post reporter walks into a high-end restaurant and discovers that some waiters write orders down

Unemployment Rate for Single Moms Reaches 25 Year High

Now that we know the facts, what are we going to do? From all reports, our current recession was supposed to be friendlier to

A New Year's Wish List for Economic Justice

9 Things We Can Do to Ensure Economic Justice for Women What we are told about recessions is weird. For most of 2007, Bush

How about Cars for People Who Need Them But Can't Afford Them Day?

Today is Car Free Day, an international event celebrated every September 22nd that encourages people to leave their car at home.  Our region signed

Dear WaPo: There are more challenging things than "squeaking by on $300,000."

The good news is that the Washington Post yesterday discovered the plight of women-headed families struggling in the recession and this economy. The bad

Helping prevent proposed cuts to D.C.'s safety net will help low-income women. Join us.

The stock market may be going up – but, unfortunately, other economic indicators, such as unemployment and homelessness are, too. This means continued down

Minimum wage increased: Happy raise, ladies!

My thoughts today are with all of the working women (and it is mostly women) who got a raise today when the federal minimum

Finally, the media realizes that the poor are impacted by the recession, too.

Finally, after all of my concern, conveyed through blogs like this one, about how the media isn’t covering the recession from the perspective of those

Job training and creation should also be the solution for unemployed single mothers.

Thank you to the Joint Economic Committee for drawing attention to rising unemployment among women-headed families in its new report, “Women in the Recession:

Join us for the 2009 Stepping Stones Research Briefing on women and the recession.

Sunday is Mother’s Day – and the media are already filled with stories about mothers and motherhood and the recession.  For example, here and