May 11th, 2012
It’s Mother’s Day – a traditional holiday in a time of untraditional families. Today, there are more than 10 million single mothers living with children younger than 18, up from 3.4 million in 1970. In 2010, according to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 40.8 percent of all births were to unmarried women – [...]
April 17th, 2012
It is Pay Equity Day again – the day that marks how far into 2012 a woman has to work to earn what a man did in 2011. The ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly full-time earnings rose by one percentage point since 2010 and reached a historical high of 82.2 percent. However, according [...]
March 21st, 2012
Friday March 23 marks the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – the historic health reform measure that is already providing – and promises to provide even more – access to good quality and affordable basic health care services millions of unmarried women and their families. Unmarried women are twice as likely (17 [...]
March 12th, 2012
All women, especially unmarried women have a stake in the outcome of the on-going debate over the new health care law and the November election. Unmarried women are twice as likely to be uninsured (21%) than married women (13%) according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And according our last Democracy Corps/Women’s [...]
March 8th, 2012
March 8, 2012 It’s clear now the Right means to demonize unmarried women and mothers this election. But they could be reaping the whirlwind by giving these women, who make up 25 percent of the electorate and tend to share progressive values, a reason to turn out this November. First look at the trend: Mother [...]
February 19th, 2012
The unmarried women, people of color and 18-29 years olds who make up the Rising American Electorate (RAE) – and the majority of the voting eligible Americans — drove progressive victories in 2006 and 2008. But they dropped off in 2010 and lagged throughout 2011. Now they are back in a big way according to [...]
January 25th, 2012
Pollsters conducting dial groups during the State of the Union address report that the President scored with his promises to push middle class priorities and values. His plans to help the long term unemployed, to keep student loan rates low and to turn community colleges into“community career centers” all drew positive reviews and past polling [...]
January 24th, 2012
Right now, many Americans who make up the fastest-growing demographic groups and the majority of eligible voters in our country are not registered or planning to vote this November. The disengagement of the unmarried women, people of color and young people who make up this Rising American Electorate (RAE) is bad news for our democracy. [...]
January 15th, 2012
Unmarried women, people of color and young people under thirty – The Rising American Electorate – now make up the majority of the U.S. population – 53 percent. But they are not registered to vote and do not turnout to vote in numbers anywhere near their majority status. Now a new report from the New [...]
December 19th, 2011
A new poll from The Voter Participation Center’s sister organization – the Women’s Voices Women’s Vote Action Fund (WVWVAF) and Democracy Corps shows incumbents in 60 Republican-held districts badly out of touch with the Rising American Electorate (RAE). These voters—unmarried women, African Americans and Hispanics voters and youth—account for a majority of the nation’s voting eligible [...]