Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, a national foundation-led initiative, is excited to collaborate with Washington Area Women’s Foundation to bring you the latest news and analysis on women and poverty.
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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 Washington Area Women’s Foundation for our weekly rundown of the top news stories on women and poverty every Friday.
Here’s this week’s news:
• In an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Christine Grumm, CEO of the Women’s Funding Network, and Barbara Mosacchio, CEO of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, call attention to the disproportionate poverty faced by women and call for action to address it
• A Boston Globe piece on local efforts to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone, an antipoverty program touted by President Obama, notes that the Children’s Zone performs outreach to pregnant young women to offer parenting education.
• In an op-ed for the Deseret Morning News, George Mason professor Walter Williams criticizes what he calls permissive attitudes toward unwed pregnancy and young women who behave sexually in public, which he blames in part for the poverty and other problems faced by many African-American communities.
• The Louisville Courier Journal reports on an effort to encourage women participating in the Women, Infants, and Children program to breastfeed their children.
• Among the students interviewed in a Chicago Tribune piece on a local culinary school, which provides new opportunities to high school dropouts, is a young woman who left high school after becoming pregnant her junior year.
• The Greensboro News and Record focuses on the antipoverty efforts of several local young women.
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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.
