The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity. This week: How the abortion rate for poor women is more than twice the average…. Plus, the hardships of teen parents.
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Here’s this week’s news:
· The Wall Street Journal reports on a 2008 survey that found that the abortion rate for poor women was more than twice the average and more than five times that of women in households making more than 200% of the poverty level.
· In an op-ed in the San Luis Obispo Tribune, Linda Lewis Griffith discusses the hardships of teen parents, most of whom are single mothers whose children are more likely to live in poverty than those born into two-parent households.
· The Daily Times profiles several low-income single mothers who are staying at Sussex County Community Crisis Housing Services, which offers services and shelter to single women and their children.
· A proposal for a group foster home for teen mothers has been shelved while the city conducts a study to see whether the project best addresses the needs of the city’s homeless youth, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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