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 1/29/2011: A look at a job training program for immigrant women. Plus, an online network that helps families in need.
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Here’s this week’s news:
• In an interview with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle spotlighting the Women’s Foundation of Genesee Valley, director Susan Latoski says that the organization’s goal is “to make lasting social change, to change the course of generational poverty.”
• The Tennessean highlights the successes of the Christian Women’s Job Corps program that offers underprivileged, primarily Spanish-speaking women free counseling, job training, educational classes, and child care in an effort to help them find better jobs.
• The Sentinel & Enterprise reports that researchers have identified the rise in single-parent families, especially mother-child families, as a major factor driving the long-term increase in child poverty in the United States.
• Love Drop, a new online network of people that chooses one person or family a month to help, selected Jill Markussen, a single mother with three children who became a client of the Glen Ellyn-based Bridge Communities transitional program for the homeless after a fire destroyed her home, according to the Chicago Daily Herald.
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