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 10/22/2010: Removing the stigma surrounding food stamps. Plus, Chicago-area hospitals find a racial gap in the breast cancer mortality rate.
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Here’s this week’s news:
• Hoping to remove the stigma surrounding food stamps, California unveiled the program’s new name, “CalFresh,” at an event in Long Beach that provided free medical, financial, and educational services to low-income women and encouraged them to sign up for the benefit, according to the Los Angeles Times.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ recent findings that that national male unemployment rate has dipped significantly while the female jobless rate has barely shifted.
• Penny Martin, a Staten Island woman who was living in a homeless shelter, tells the Daily News that a recently discovered decades-old check for $10,000 owed to her from a life insurance policy will help her turn her life around.
• The Chicago Sun Times writes that new figures from the Sinai Urban Health Institute provide evidence that Chicago’s racial gap in breast cancer mortality has grown steadily over the last two decades, outpacing similar disparities between black and white women in New York City and the nation as a whole.
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