The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity. For the week ending 1/21/2011: A look at a nonprofit’s expanding efforts to aid immigrant women who are the victims of domestic violence.
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Here’s this week’s news:
• Pathways United Methodist Church opened a women’s emergency shelter in the middle of January; however, one of its coordinators tells the Springfield News-Leader that only one homeless woman has used the shelter’s services.
• The Miami Herald reports that “No More Tears,” a Plantation-based nonprofit group that helps immigrant women escape domestic abuse, is expanding its reach across the country .
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The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity team