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:
• The New York Times covers a New York City public school that is part of a trend, especially among schools serving low-income students, toward single-sex classrooms.
• As part of a profile of young Evangelicals offering services to the poor, the Christian Science Monitor focuses on several young women who have moved into struggling neighborhoods to be closer to those they serve.
• The Atlanta Journal Constitution notes that low-income workers, especially women and people with part-time jobs, have a hard time qualifying for unemployment insurance in Georgia.
• A column in the Philadelphia Daily News focuses on the struggles of low-income women aspiring to be nurses, some of whom cannot obtain the training they need.
• A new $1.3 million grant will be used to help low-income, first-time mothers and their children in Horry County, South Carolina, according to the Myrtle Beach Sun News.
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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.