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 TheWomensFoundation.org for our weekly rundown of the top news stories on women and poverty every Friday.
Here’s this week’s news:
• The Los Angeles Times covers Planned Parenthood’s fight to use tobacco settlement money to fund a breast health program to reach lower-income women under 40, who are at a higher risk for breast cancer.
• Boulder County’s nutrition program for low-income mothers and their children has expanded the selection of food it offers to include healthy fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, as reported by the Daily Camera.
• The Boston Globe applauds Rev. William McCarthy’s achievement of building a support network for battered women and the homeless.
• An “unusual” Fairfax Country program is raising a single low-income mother’s self-esteem by providing career counseling and other support, according to the Washington Post.
• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette highlights the story of a single mom, deserted by her husband, who now struggles on the brink of homelessness along with her two children.
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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.