Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, a national foundation-led initiative, is excited to collaborate with The Women’s Foundation to bring you the latest news and analysis on women and poverty.
Spotlight is the go-to site for news and ideas about fighting poverty.
For daily updates and links to past articles, check out “Women and Poverty.” It’s a new section of our site with a comprehensive collection of recent news and analysis on women and poverty.
Along with these daily updates, continue to visit TheWomensFoundation.org for our weekly rundown of the top news stories on women and poverty every Friday.
Here’s this week’s news:
- Alice Smith, 80, is a low-income retiree unable to pay off massive credit card debt. The Washington Post reports that older Americans, like Ms. Smith, are among the most vulnerable age groups in this recession, since they are unable to pay off large debt loads with fixed incomes and dwindling retirement savings.
- In her memoir, Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat, Stephanie Covington Armstrong reveals that eating disorders – traditionally thought to afflict only wealthy white communities – are rampant in poor black communities as well, according to the Boston Globe.
- The Lexington Herald Leader covers the uplifting story of how Jessica Caldwell won a college scholarship. Born into poverty and abandoned by her alcoholic mother, Ms. Caldwell never thought she would be able to attend college.
- In an interview with the New York Times, Mary Gibson Holley, a 74-year-old black retiree living in Alabama, feels apprehensive about community leaders’ plans to fill the local landfill with coal ash from Tennessee.
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The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity Team
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity is a foundation-led, non-partisan initiative aimed at ensuring that our political leaders take significant actions to reduce poverty and increase opportunity in the United States. We bring together diverse perspectives from the political, policy, advocacy and foundation communities to engage in an ongoing dialogue focused on finding genuine solutions to the economic hardship confronting millions of Americans.
