Myra Jones-Taylor

Oct 31, 2024 | urban.org | Myra Jones-Taylor |Heather Sandstrom

Nearly half of families struggle to afford diapers, and 40 percent of menstruators with young children struggle to afford period products. It is critical to examine the health, social, and economic impacts of diaper need and period poverty and connections to other policies supporting maternal, child, and women’s health; financial security and economic opportunity programs; and the reach of basic needs banks.

Oct 23, 2024 | urban.org | Gregory Acs |Myra Jones-Taylor |Sarah Rosen Wartell

According to a 2023 Federal Reserve survey, 52 percent of US residents report that, at best, they’re just making ends meet and did not save any income in the previous month. Only 33 percent report they live comfortably. Yet conventional measures of economic insecurity, like the poverty rate, capture only acute need and don’t show the hardships of millions of people who struggle to pay bills and save for the future—people who are economically insecure and not poised to thrive.