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.
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For daily updates and links to past articles, check out “Women and Poverty.” It’s a new section of our site with a comprehensive collection of recent news and analysis on women and poverty.
Along with these daily updates, continue to visit www.TheWomensFoundation.org for our weekly rundown of the top news stories on women and poverty every Friday.
Here’s this week’s news:
• The Times-Picayune features an article about how the young people in the Little Zion Baptist Church service group volunteer in women’s shelters and help to organize poor neighborhoods in New Orleans.
• The Chicago Tribune reported that the St. Paul Diaper Bank Partnership will soon be distributing diapers to low-income single mothers and families in McHenry County.
• In the wake of the President’s healthcare speech last week, the issue of the public option funding abortions, especially for low-income and uninsured women, seems to have been resolved, according to the New York Times.
• Homeless women moved out of a Salvation Army emergency winter shelter to provide room for the men who occupy it during the colder months, as told by the Charlotte Observer.
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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.