The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
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Here’s this week’s news:
· The Virginian-Pilot reports that Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell plans to pare $2.2 billion from the state budget, specifically targeting a state insurance program for low-income children and pregnant women.
· In a series of interviews with the Boston Globe, Jessica McLeod and several other single mothers in rehabilitation for drug use discuss how a program that offers cash incentives to quit drugs motivated them to dig their families out of poverty.
· In response to comments about the poor by Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer of South Carolina, Angela Sutton, a low-income single mother of two, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that just because she and her family depend on disability and food stamps for their survival does not mean they are lazy.
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