Publications

Economic Security Across Generations: Background, Analysis, and Policy Recommendations

SIGN-ON LETTER: WOW letter to the President-elect on Economic Security for Women, their Families and Elders

'WOW Statement on Draft Legislation to Create a Modern Poverty Measure

The State of Women and Their Families’ Lifelong Economic Security

Fact Sheet - Women and Non-Traditional Employment

WOW Congressional Testimony: Measuring Poverty in America

Coming Up Short: A Comparison of Wages and Work Supports in 10 American Communities

The Rain Don't Fall to the Ground Here: The Status of Human Rights for Southern Rural Black Women by SRBWI

Workforce Development

• Building Lifelong Economic Security through the Career and Technical Education System: A Guide to Implementing the 2006 Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Act – Perkins IV
• Green Jobs Training Program Fact Sheet
• Backward Priorities in Job Training: WOW Statement on '09 Budget
• New Directions In Workforce Development: Do They Lead to Gains for Women?
• Reality Check: Promoting Self-Sufficiency in the Public Workforce System: A Promising Practice Guide for Workforce Boards
• WOW Congressional Testimony on WIA: Recommendations to Improve the Effectiveness of Job Training
• Reality Check: Promoting Self-Sufficiency in the Public Workforce System: Working with Women, Youth and Ex-Offenders
• The following material can be used to illustrate uses of self-sufficiency in workforce development:

  Promoting Economic Independence in the Public Workforce System: Using Self-Sufficiency as a Goal

  • The Script
  • The Power Point Presentation

Elders

• Economic Security Across Generations: Background, Analysis, and Policy Recommendations
• Fact Sheet: Single Elder Women's Retirement Income Falls Short of Elder Economic Security Standard Index
• National Academy of Social Insurance: Social Security and Retirement Income Adequacy By Virginia P. Reno and Joni Lavery
• Economic Policy Institute - Briefing Paper #208 - November 20, 2007: Building on Social Security's Success By Virginia P. Reno
• Center for Retirement Research: How Many Struggle to Get By in Retirement? By Barbara A. Butrica, Dan Murphy, and Sheila R. Zedlewski
• Measuring American Poverty Act of 2008
• Action Alert on Economic Stimulus II
• National Council on Aging's, Innovations: Keeping Low-Income Seniors Afloat by Arlene Karidis