In today’s rundown: A look at Casa de Maryland’s winter program for immigrants. | The finances of stay-at-home moms who get divorced. | Making 2011 the Year of Giving. | And “painful” budget cuts for Montgomery County.
— Grantee Partner Casa de Maryland is featured in The Washington Post for their “Winter Semester,” which teaches skills to immigrants. The three month program focuses on marketable skills like child care, tailoring, plumbing, English and computer literacy.
— The Institute for Women’s Policy Research — another Grantee Partner — is cited in a New Republic article on “the opt out problem.” The article takes a look at the “looming economic disaster for stay-at-home moms who get divorced.”
— “Make 2011 the Year of Giving,” writes David M. Bradt, Jr. in Capital Business. Bradt notes the juxtaposition between the growing wealth in our region and the increasing number of residents who are unemployed and/or living in poverty.
— Montgomery County’s executive is warning that upcoming budget cuts “will be painful,” reports WAMU. The county’s budget deficit is at $300 million and is expected to go higher.