The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
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Here’s this week’s news:
· The Boston Globe publishes the findings of a new study that suggests that a mother’s psychological stress during pregnancy may cause asthma, which disproportionately affects low-income children living in cities.
· The Massachusetts State legislature could pull funding from several programs that help teen mothers complete high school, according to the Boston Herald.
· A low-income single mother tells the Boston Globe that she turned down a promotion because the extra pay would have bumped her income over the limit for a needed child-care voucher.
· The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that New Jersey family-planning centers that largely serve low-income women would lose all of their state funding under the budget proposed by Gov. Christie.
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