Report: Persistent wage gap contributing to poverty among women, By Alicia Wallace, October 27, 2015, Denver Post: “In 2004, the last time the Institute for Women’s Policy Research released state-by-state wage gap data, Colorado’s women earned a median salary of $32,200, or 78.7 percent of their male counterparts. More than a decade later, women are earning 80 cents for every dollar a man makes for the same work…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty