The long wait for Progress Women and Economic and Social Equality

Century Foundation Senior Fellow Beverly Goldberg analyzes the substantial gap in wages between men and women, and then measures that gap in the context of women’s educational achievements and the continuing discrimination against women in the workplace, with attention to the impact of the issues of health and child care. pdf

Living on the Edge: Health Care Expenses Strain Family Budgets

Loss of job or Health insurance, serious illness would push many over financial edge.

Based on HSC’s 2007 Health Tracking Household Survey, a nationally representative survey with information on 14,500 people under age 65, the study’s findings are detailed in a new HSC Research Brief—Living on the Edge: Health Care Expenses Strain Family Budgets—available here. The study also included in-depth interviews conducted in September 2008 with 20 survey respondents who reported problems paying medical bills when they took part in the 2007 survey.