Economic Equality

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Platform - Green Party US
  II. Social Justice
    A1. Women's Rights
            Economic Equality

Since, nationally, women earn only 77% of men's wages for equal work, despite outnumbering men in the workforce and despite the U.S. 1963 Equal Pay Act, we support intensified effort to see this unfair gap closed, including support for the Paycheck Fairness Act and similar legislation, and greater effort at enforcement.
Single mothers are the largest and most severely impoverished group in the United States, which explains why 22% of the children in our country live below the poverty line.

Welfare reform has forced mothers to abandon their children while they travel to work at minimum wage jobs.

With the extreme pay inequity, single mothers cannot afford child care, nurture their children, and move out of poverty.
The Green Party supports real reforms to end poverty and return dignity and opportunity to all mothers.

We call for implementing innovative programs that work with the particular and special needs of motherhood.

We also support other programs such as a universal basic income (known also as a guaranteed income or Citizen Dividend, as described in True Cost Pricing and Tax Fairness, IV. E.) that will provide for those who nurture the next generation — work that is of incalculable importance to our society.