tem, and were often unable to work through the system in
2 John A. Schiller, ed., The American Poor, (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1982), 9.
3 Louis Kriesberg, Mothers in Poverty A Study of Fatherless Families, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1970).
4 Francisco Jiminez, ed., Poverty and Social Justice, (Tempe: Billigual Press, 1987). order to work their way out of poverty and into some semblance of economic and social equality.5
In the United States, the concept of poverty disproportionately affects women and children, to a large degree because of the substantial increases in the percentage of female headed households. In the broad concept, this has become known as 'the feminization of poverty.'6 Young women are certainly at the risk of poverty, but women past the age of sixty five also suffer from economic depravation. In fact, poverty knows no age of ethnic boundaries. However, the highest poverty rate is among young children, usually those in female headed households. The reasons for this, of course, are varied and complex. Y
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