Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity is a foundation-led initiative that aims to build and sustain public and political will to alleviate poverty. This week, The Women’s Foundation’s president, Phyllis Caldwell, had the opportunity to write a commentary focusing on the importance of developing a Poverty Impact Statement to measure the effect of proposed policy on women and their families.
The commentary, and the work of a coalition of women’s funds throughout the country–of which Washington Area Women’s Foundation is a part–are focused on the need for policymakers and advocates to truly understand the day-to-day realities that make it challenging for women living in poverty to follow a traditional path to economic security.
Check out the commentary to learn more about this important work, the unique challenges impacting women living in poverty and how new policies could drastically change the lives of women and their children, here in the Washington metropolitan area and throughout the nation.
Lisa Kays is Senior Communications and Marketing Officer at The Women’s Foundation.
