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 nation’s First Lady, Michelle Obama, uses an op-ed in USA Today to call for youth service.
• A Knoxville News Sentinel columnist criticizes the “free love” revolution and calls unwed motherhood a “moral crisis” that produces poverty and suffering for mothers and their kids.
• In a column for the Chicago Sun Times, Mary Mitchell calls attention to the danger of breast cancer, including its disproportionate effect on low-income women.
• The New York Times profiles a 16-year-old girl with musical talent, but with difficult circumstances in a low-income Ohio community.
• In a Washington Post op-ed, education columnist Jay Mathews focuses on a young girl and her mother who have questioned whether accelerated classes, a popular solution to educating low-income students, are always the best option.
• In a piece on the danger of AIDS in the American South, the Chicago Tribune tells the story of a woman struggling with the disease in rural North Carolina.
• In an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, columnist Annette John-Hall supports a local program that helps homeless teen girls enjoy a day of free shopping.
• The Kansas City Star reports on a woman who once gave to charity while employed in the corporate world, but who has lost her savings in the recession and is now relying on United Way to make ends meet.
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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.