FAST FACTS - Keeping them poor: women and minimum wage

of women in poverty.” of a single mother with two Women consistently find Ten years later, the level of children working full-time are themselves overrepresented poverty remains virtually less than half of LICO. [...] In with two children has to work of two must work at least 80 fact, women outnumber men more than 80 hours/week at in each of the ten lowest minimum wage just to reach hours per week every single paying occupations in Canada the poverty line. [...] A low minimum wage sion of the Status of Women and the Beijing+10 Review in policy contributes to Manitoba’s alarmingly high levels of New York this week, we are deeply disappointed that so little child poverty. [...] the minimum wage as a key element in the elimination of child poverty. [...] About 15% of minimum wage as a moral commitment to use policies such as the minimum earners in Canada are heads of families.