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 11/19/2010: The Census Bureau is planning to incorporate broader definitions of family when measuring poverty, a shift caused partly by recent jumps in unmarried couples living together.
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Here’s this week’s news:
• Carolina Rescue Ministries tells the Asheville Citizen-Times that Kmart employees painted and redecorated its women’s shelter with a truckload of donated home furnishings.
• New Jersey Democrats are fighting to restore the roughly $7.5 million that Governor Christie cut from family planning—money that mostly goes to health care services for low-income women, according to the Daily Record.
• The Daily Times reports that Salisbury-based Hope and Life Outreach, known as HALO, has started early, opening a women and mothers with children’s shelter in mid-November, more than a month-and-a-half before its normal January start.
• The Associated Press writes that the Census Bureau is planning to incorporate broader definitions of family when measuring poverty, a shift caused partly by recent jumps in unmarried couples living together as well as in response to a recent study by the Pew Research Center indicating that four in ten Americans believe that marriage is becoming obsolete.
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