Quick Facts

    • More than 513,500

      child care providers received CCDF funds in FY 2011. Learn more about the Child Care and Development Fund

    • Homeless Woman
      15%

      Overall poverty rate in 2011

      That's 46.2 million people—statistically unchanged from 15.1 percent in 2010.  The poverty rate of children living in single female-headed families was 47.6 percent, over four times the rate of children in married-couple families (10.9 percent).  See the Census report.

    • 1 in 3

      Today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese.

    • An image of a large group of people and text that reads 12 million women and men

      are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States every year.

    • An image of a woman with text that reads 95% of survivors

      report being more hopeful about the future after seeking and receiving help from a domestic violence program.

    • Doctor shining light in patient's eyes
      47 Million

      Women with access to new prevention-related services without paying more

      Eight new services are available under the health care law, explains HHS Secretary Sebelius in her recent blog.  See all 22 covered services for women

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