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More than one in eight women, more than 16.9 million, lived in poverty last year. Poverty rates were particularly high for families headed by single mothers — 1 in 3 (36.5 percent) lived in poverty. More than half of all poor children (56.2 percent) lived in female-headed families in 2015.
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Sources:
National poverty rates calculated by NWLC based on 2016 Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
State poverty rates calculated by NWLC based on 2015 American Community Survey.
Note:
The “African American” race category includes those who identified themselves in the U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Survey as Black or African American. The “Asian” race category includes those who identified themselves as Asian. The “Native American” race category includes those who identified themselves as American Indian or Alaskan Native. The “white” race category includes those who identified themselves as white, but not of Hispanic origin. The “Hispanic” category includes people of any race who identified themselves to be of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin.
Dashes indicate unavailable data. Data are given for women ages 18 and over unless otherwise noted. Female-headed families are families with female householders, no husband present and related children under 18.
