Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, a national foundation-led initiative, is excited to collaborate with The Women’s Foundation to bring you the latest news and analysis on women and poverty.
Spotlight is the go-to site for news and ideas about fighting poverty. And every Friday, look for our weekly rundown of the top news stories on women and poverty.
Here’s this week’s news:
• A New York Times article profiles a 19-year-old Native American woman from an impoverished reservation trying to turn her life around through boxing.
• The Chicago Tribune, in an article on a federal law meant to help homeless kids stay in school, interviews a homeless single mother working to keep her oldest in the same school as the family moves.
• The Los Angeles Times reports that the removal of family-planning funding for the poor from the stimulus package, as well as other indicators, shows that Democrats are likely to approach abortion issues slowly and with caution.
• A recent appeal by Philadelphia anti-hunger advocates utilized video testimonies from 40 women describing their experience with hunger, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
• In an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, columnist Jim Wooten highlights the example of octuplets born in California to argue against children being raised by single mothers.
• The Salt Lake Tribune covers a report indicating that Utah Latinas have a high teen birth rate, which correlates with poverty.
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The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity Team
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity is a foundation-led, non-partisan initiative aimed at ensuring that our political leaders take significant actions to reduce poverty and increase opportunity in the United States. We bring together diverse perspectives from the political, policy, advocacy and foundation communities to engage in an ongoing dialogue focused on finding genuine solutions to the economic hardship confronting millions of Americans.