The "Clinton years" have, however, resulted in one vitally important and lasting economic condition: the feminization of poverty in the United States. Today, 53 percent of poverty-level families are headed by single-mothers. Only nine percent are headed by single males. The rest, obviously, are two-parent families. What's more, of all poor people in the United States, 61 percent of those over age 18 are women. By every economic measure, Bill Clinton's policies — especially his so-called welfare reform — have done more harm to American women than, perhaps, any president in the history of the United States.
In the final analysis, if people are to be objective, the Clintons' economic policies have done to women, what Ronald Reagan's policy of throwing people out of institutions did for the mentally ill. Reagan forced thousands of mentally ill patients into the impoverished homeless ranks, and the Clintons' economic policies forced millions of women into poverty.
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Well - the previous government introduced similar policies here in just the last couple of years - but the difference is here you are paid a living wage if you work. Nevertheless, the problem remains - who looks after the children while the mum's at work? How may mums get the opportunity to work only during school hours? Not many. Feminisation of poverty is nothing new - but now there's a whole generation of working poor and unsupervised/uncared for children.
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