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.
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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 New York Times profiles nine-year old Charity Crowell, one of more than one million students whose family is homeless as a result of eviction and foreclosure.
• The Times-Picayune reports that Mark and Brenda Gebhardt are opening up the Danielle Inn, a home for unwed, expectant mothers. The Gebhardts hope to provide help and education for homeless pregnant women, especially those who are in desperate situations.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution highlights the accomplishments of Zicuria Ussery, a low-income student who has started her own smoothie business and was selected as a finalist in the 2009 OppenheimerFunds/National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge.
• Planned Parenthood of Indiana announced that it will close a clinic in Indianapolis along with four others due to loss of funding, as reported in the Indianapolis Star.
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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.