Mother’s Day Money Blues
Mom-stats worth repeating from this week’s Motherlode blog.
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Mothers make 73 cents to every dollar earned by an equally qualified man at the same job.
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Single mothers make about 60 cents compared to that dollar.
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Over a lifetime, mothers earn from $40,000 to $2 million less than men doing the same work, due to gender wage disparity.
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A full quarter of U.S. families with children less than six years old live in poverty.
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Motherhood does not come with Social Security or health benefits.
Happy Mother’s Day.
