After a Women’s History Month blogging blitz, we’re back with your daily rundown of news impacting women and girls locally! In today’s rundown: How Mayor Gray’s proposed 2012 budget will impact family programs. | Low-wage jobs don’t provide families in the U.S. with economic security. | A computer skills course in D.C. for low-income adults. | Women aren’t “pet rocks.”
— The New York Times features Wider Opportunities for Women — a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner — in an article about that ways in which low-wage jobs fail to provide families with economic security. The article refers to WOW’s “The Basic Economic Security Tables for the United States” report.
— According to Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s budget for the 2012 fiscal year proposes that “a disproportionate amount of money [be] taken out of programs that help keep families stable and healthy.” Click here to read more.
— WAMU.com profiles a woman who just graduated from Byte Back, a computer skills program for low-income adults in D.C.
— Kathleen Parker says “women aren’t pet rocks” in a Washington Post column that suggests that empowering women and girls can lead to more secure societies.