women on the brink view their own lives. 54% feel the harder i work the more i fall behind. 60% feel the economy does not work for people like me. and 75% wish they had stayed in school longer. but these women are also optimistic. 62% believe their financial situation will get better in the next five years. and we re back with maria. good to see you. yeah. that s exciting. i think all the women think their lives can get better, but i think it s a wake-up call to the united states that 1 in 3 working women in this country are in economic peril. what i m curious about, when you write about it in this report, is women have arrived, have transformed society in so many ways, getting more power, becoming breadwinner, still as caregivers. such a huge impact from leadership to consumer behavior, and yet this, and yet the 1 out of 3 on the brink. why? because so many women don t have the advantages that other
plus, a bombshell tell-all casting doubt on president obama s leadership from a member of his inner circle. our roundtable debates the impact of the new memory. and struggling to escape the throes of poverty. why tens of millions of women are on the brink. maria shriver joins me with details of her new report.
as caregivers has got to be a part of this conversation. men totally a part of this conversation in terms of how they raise their daughters, in terms of how they support their wives and their partners. and what s good for women at the center of the economy is also goold nor men. men need flexible hours. men need sick days because they re going to be caring for parents as well. men need all these things that these women need. these are smart family policies that we re talking about in this report. i think if people are interested in the report you can download it for free at shriverreport .og and read about it. we re saying government and businesses have not kept up and we need to modernize our relationships to women. you heard marco rubio. there s obviously a debate. conservatives want to get more into the discussion of dealing poverty even as they renounce the war on poverty from lyndon johnson a failure. where does government play a role? i would like to correct that. the war o
talking nabt this book, but men as caregivers has got to be a part of this conversation. men totally a part of this conversation in terms of how they raise their daughters, in terms of how they support their wives and their partners. and what s good for women at the center of the economy is also goold nor men. men need flexible hours. men need sick days because they re going to be caring for parents as well. men need all these things that these women need. these are smart family policies that we re talking about in this report. i think if people are interested in the report you can download it for free at shriverreport .og and read about it. we re saying government and businesses have not kept up and we need to modernize our relationships to women. you heard marco rubio. there s obviously a debate. conservatives want to get more into the discussion of dealing poverty even as they renounce the war on poverty from lyndon johnson a failure. where does government play a role? i would
look at the financial struggles for millions of women in the u.s. it is called the shriver report, the latest in a series, a woman s nation pushes back from the brink. maria is here to reveal the results. welcome back. thank you, david. before we have our conversation, i want to look at some of the key findings in your report. reporter: the troubling headline from the report, that 1 in 3 american women live at or near the brink of poverty. that s 42 million women and 28 million children who depend on them. medical illness, a missed paycheck, a broken-down car away from economic ruin. the face of economic insecurity has changed from 50 years ago when president lyndon johnson launched his war on poverty. the man who led that effort was maria shriver s father, sargent shriver. he appeared here on meet the press back in 1964. they re getting too little food, inadequate education, they re living in substandard housing, but most of all they