You know it: the constant struggle to meet our responsibilities both as employees, but also as breadwinners, and mothers and fathers.

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As breadwinners lost jobs or suffered pay cuts, the number of low-income families grew to 10 million in 2009, an increase of almost a quarter-million.

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Sixty percent of Haitian households are headed by women and many face special challenges as breadwinners, according to a recent U.N. conference for university students in Haiti about responsible government.

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