Paul Ryan has a big plan to end poverty. It just doesn't include help for women
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/25/paul-ryan-poverty-plan-women
The biggest problem with Head Start right now is that the sequester – which Ryan voted for, complained about and then incorporated into his own budget plan – gave the program its largest cut in history: $400m out of an $8b budget. After the slashing, 57,000 children left the program – and that left tens of thousands women without child care while they worked.
The sequester's Head Start cuts were rightly seen as part of the GOP's war on women, but Ryan chose to ignore almost entirely those walking wounded in his poverty report. But is almost impossible to have any serious discussion about poverty without talking about women.
Women earn less in income, they make up a disproportionate percentage of the poor and they suffer the impacts of poverty – untreated mental illness and disease – at a higher rate than men. More women than men are at risk of becoming poor. Because so many of the poor and near-poor are women with children, their poverty has the worst kind "trickle down" effect you could imagine.
But here are some things mentioned in Ryan's report more times than women (0) or "females" (3): "success" (45), "opportunity" (132), "innovation" (20), and, of course, "block grants" (13).
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