[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4354]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT

  (Ms. BROWNLEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, this Women's History Month, 
we learned that women continue to struggle with long-term unemployment. 
In fact, long-term unemployment among women increased from 34.8 percent 
in January to 37.7 percent in February.
  According to a recent Pew Research Center study, women are the sole 
or primary breadwinner in 4 in every 10 American households with 
children. When women who have jobs only receive 77 cents to every 
dollar a man makes, when 70 percent of Americans in poverty are women 
and children, in a country where women, out of the gate, start out 
behind, refusing to extend long-term unemployment compensation to those 
who have looked for a job but cannot find one is particularly hurtful.
  For all these reasons, we must renew emergency unemployment 
compensation--because when women succeed, then Ventura County succeeds; 
and when Ventura County succeeds, America succeeds.

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