In today’s rundown: The District’s only confidential shelter for battered women is doubling its capacity.  |  The cost of housing a homeless family in D.C.  |  A local jobs summit will address unemployment among women veterans.

– D.C.’s only confidential shelter for battered women is expanding.  My Sister’s Place (a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner) is more than doubling its capacity.  Renovations are underway to add 45 emergency shelter beds.  Click here for more details.

– Housing a homeless family in a District shelter costs three times as much per month as the average Washington two-bedroom apartment rental, according to a new government study.  Click here for more on the study.

– Later today the U.S. Department of Labor is holding a jobs summit for women veterans at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington.  The summit is part of the department’s efforts to fight the 20 percent unemployment rate for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Click here for more.

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