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.
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:
• The House of Ruth, the Calvary Women’s Services, and other agencies that provide services and housing to homeless and abused women will not be receiving as much city funding this year, as reported in the Washington Post.
• Single mothers are provided with groceries, advice about Section 8 housing, and other services by Hope Community Services in a poor part of New Rochelle, according to the New York Times.
• Oz du Soleil, who collects slightly used and new bras for needy women, told the Chicago Tribune that he has sent 1,400 bras to impoverished women and girls in the US and around the world.
• An opinion article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution states that encouraging American minorities to have healthy marriages may be a way out of poverty.
• The findings of a study published in the Washington Post state that twelve percent of stay-at-home moms live below the poverty line, compared with five percent of other mothers.
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The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity team