How Rising Prices and Policy Cuts Are Squeezing Moms and Families

[JustAnotherGen]

1. The Working Class

As I like to call them in my County - the forgotten women of America.

To put it plainly, policies that raise prices while cutting social supports concentrate harmful impacts on those least able to absorb them: pregnant people, single mothers and low-wage workers, who are overwhelmingly women and people of color. Wage gaps, caregiving responsibilities and the responsibility of typically doing the household purchasing mean women shoulder an outsized share of these regressive burdens

Too many middle class white families think they are working class. They aren't.