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:
• As reported in the Boston Globe, a Massachusetts cardinal is defending a collaboration between the church and a local health provider that provides abortions along with its other services. The cardinal is stating that abortions will not be provided in church-supported facilities and the poor will benefit from the partnership.
• The Miami Herald focuses on a local migrant’s daughter who recently won a scholarship to attend college.
• A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial argues that local programs providing education and medical care to low-income pregnant women will need more funding to counteract the city’s high infant mortality rate among minorities.
• The Providence Journal profiles an obstetrical nurse who, having once been pregnant while homeless herself, is devoting time to educating at-risk girls.
• The Dallas Morning News covers a hospital with a much lower rate of premature births than the national average. It has achieved strong results through providing comprehensive prenatal care to a mostly low-income clientele.
• In an article on parents about to lose a childcare subsidy in Arizona, the Associated Press interviews a working mother expecting to struggle without the help.
• A Philadelphia area researcher has given cameras to impoverished mothers to chronicle American hunger, as reported by the Associated Press.
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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.