In today’s rundown: A closer look at unemployment rates for single mothers. | A new grocery store in DC won’t be accepting WIC payments. | A day in the life of the working military mom.
— “Unemployment rates among single mothers have long surpassed those among married men and women,” writes economics professor Nancy Folbre in The New York Times. “In 2010, their unemployment rate averaged 14.6 percent, compared with 6.8 percent among married men and 6.3 percent among married mothers.” Folbre goes on to cite the Institute for Women’s Policy Research — a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner — which says that women have less access than men to unemployment benefits.
— Low-cost supermarket chain Aldi is opening a store in Northeast D.C., but they won’t be able to accept payments from the Women Infants and Children (WIC) federal subsidy program. Aldi only sells its own brands that government has not approved the Aldi brand for participation in WIC.
— More than 70,000 active duty women in the military are mothers, reports The Washington Post. A photographer followed one of those working moms to document her busy day. Click here for details.