2015 November Hearing Background Materials

Senate Office of Research

Profile of Women and Girls in South Los Angeles (pdf attached)

Updated California Poverty Rates (pdf attached)

            Los Angeles Homeless Count 2015 (link)

            Los Angeles Homeless Initiative Vision Available (pdf attached)

            2013 Downtown Women's Need Assessment (pdf attached)

            The Virtuous Woman Inc.  Program Description (pdf attached)

            California Homeless Youth Project: Sexual Exploitation and Homeless Youth in California (pdf attached)

            Alliance of Children's Rights: Ending the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Action Team Update(pdf)

            Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

                 Gender Equity in City Operations - Demographics (pdf attached)   

Select Committee Hearing and Convening Reports

Report on July 17-18 Convening in Sacramento

Highlights of White House Summit on Working Families

Information and Other Publications

2015 Background Materials

California Budget and Policy Center

Typical Single Mother Child Care Costs

Even CalWORKS & CalFRESH Assistance Combined Fail to Lift Families Out of Poverty

Five Facts Everyone Should Know About Poverty

Poverty is a Problem We Can Address

Strategies to Reduce Poverty in California

Center for American Progress Action Fund: It's Time to Raise the Minimum Wage (Los Angeles)

Child Action Inc.: Poverty and Inequitable Opportunities

Children's Defense Fund California: Ending Child Poverty Now

Congresswoman Pelosi: Federal Women's Economic Agenda

Economic Policy Institute: EPI's Family Budgets & Income Sufficiency in Los Angeles

Economic Roundtable: Los Angeles Rising - A City That Works for Everyone

Institute for Women's Policy Research: Equal Pay for Women Reduces Poverty

Invest in California Families: CA's MFG Rule: Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish, and Flat-Out Wrong

Repeal MFG Fact Sheet

2014 Background Materials

Professor Manuel Pastor Presentation on Women, Inequality & the Future of California

Senate Office of Research

California Poverty Rates Using Official and Supplemental Poverty Measure

Women, Poverty and Inequality

When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families

White House Summit on Working Families

Women's Foundation of California

Percentage of Women in Poverty (in California, ranked by District)

Percentage of Women in Poverty (in California, maps)