The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
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.
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 the Washington Area Women’s Foundation for our weekly rundown of the top news stories on women and poverty every Friday.
Here’s this week’s news:
· New York Newsday reveals that women lag behind men in saving for retirement, contributing to a high rate of poverty among unmarried women age 65 and older.
· The Chicago Tribune reports that thousands of low-income Illinois women on waiting lists for mammograms will be aided by $4.7 million in new funding for the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program.
· Public-health experts fear the continuing economic recession will take a toll on women as deeper cuts are made in public-health programs for low-income households, as reported in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
· The Vallejo Times Herald examines how older women who are divorced, separated, or widowed or who have never married are twice as likely to be uninsured as their married peers, and thus much more susceptible to financially crippling medical bills.
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The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity team