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The Invisible Women of America: How Poor Women are Treated

Sep 1, 2009 | 18 Comments

I am a poor woman living in the United States. I make a little more then $12,000 a year working in a group home for the mentally ill in their group home. A lot of poor women work in nursing homes or in hospitals as Aides. Most of the time this is the only training offered to poor women. The work is difficult and the pay is lousy but for me the big payoff is when I help someone.
The poor people of America are often invisible except for when we …

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