Mimi Abramovitz (Hunter College School of Social Work, Author of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present) and Sherry Deane (Attorney, Children's Defense Fund, Program Associate for the Adolescent Pregnancy Child Watch Project, Member of the MADRE Board of Directors) present their research on women and poverty. Part of the morning plenary sessions at the Scholar and Feminist Conference XVI. Papers presented or name of session: "Women and Children at Risk and in Poverty".