‘Period Poverty’: Organization works to alleviate lack of access to feminine products for teens
“Candor Health Education executive director Barb Thayer joined ABC7 to discuss their end-of-school-year campaign. She said she hopes to send Chicago student girls home with enough feminine products for the summer.
A 2019 study shows almost 2/3 of low-income women in the U.S. could not afford menstrual products in the last year, while nearly half sometimes had to choose between buying food or menstrual products.”