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Report: Black women are working hard but ‘our country is not working for them’

06/08/2017 | Vanessa Williams | Washington Post

A new report about the nation’s black women paints a familiar portrait of a group that is working hard on many levels to achieve the American Dream but is still falling short.

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Black Women in America Really Do Work Harder for Less, New Report Shows

06/07/2017 | Nora Caplan-Bricker | Slate

It’s a familiar adage that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts—and that black women, oppressed by the intersecting forces of sexism and racism, have to struggle even more. Now, a sweeping new report from the nonprofit Institute for Women’s Policy Research, funded by the National Domestic Workers Alliance, provides the data to back this up.

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Report: Black Women Face Inequality in Every Part of Society

06/07/2017 | Auditi Guha | ReWire

As Alicia Garza, the panel’s moderator, said in a statement, “While Black women are working hard, democracy isn’t working for us, and hard work isn’t paying off. Black families depend on Black women, yet Black women face the highest poverty rates in the nation, second only to indigenous women. We do our part to make this country better—we vote at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group. It’s time for an agenda that puts Black women at the center, for the sake of all of us.” Garza...

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