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- Marriage, divorce, widowhood, and any change in marital status can have lasting impacts on finances and savings.
- The surge in U.S. retirements during the Covid-19 pandemic was led by older White women without a college education, according to research by the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
- It would increase the earnings of 32 million workers, or 21% of the workforce, and it would broadly benefit nearly 19 million working women — roughly one in four female workers in the United States.
- This bill would allow part-time workers to participate in an employer's retirement plan after two years. More than 27 million people work less than full-time, most of whom are women or caregivers.
- Over the last five months, women have returned to work at much lower rates than men. The National Women’s Law Center predicts it could take women 13 months to recover the jobs they lost due to the pandemic.
- Women and people of color are the most likely to say they are financially worse off today than before the pandemic began, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.