The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity. For the week ending 12/17/2010: A look at a job-readiness program for homeless women. And Jane Fonda pushes for teen pregnancy programs to address poverty and education .
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Here’s this week’s news:
• Hundreds of low-income women will no longer receive pre-natal care in northern New Jersey and thousands more patients across the state will be turned away for family planning, gynecological care, and sexually transmitted disease testing in 2011, according to The Record.
• The Sacramento Bee interviews graduates from Women’s Empowerment, a nonprofit Sacramento program that offers an eight-week job-readiness program for homeless women, many of whom are victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse and struggle with substance abuse.
• In an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jane Fonda argues that teen pregnancy programs must address the poverty and education issues that young teenagers face.
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