In today’s rundown: A grantee pushes for more affordable housing in Montgomery County. | A free health clinic opens its doors for the day in D.C. | A look at working moms and their places in the workforce. | The nine Cs of women’s philanthropy.
— CASA de Maryland, a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner, is pushing Montgomery County leaders for laws that would keep rent from rising in Silver Spring near the planned light rail Purple Line. A large number of Hispanic residents live in the neighborhood around the planned construction area. The Washington Examiner has obtained a letter that CASA wrote to Montgomery County officials warning them that soaring housing prices would displace residents.
— A number of D.C.’s 57,000 residents who don’t have health insurance will be able to get free medical care today at the Washington Convention Center. Doors to D.C.’s largest free clinic open at 11 a.m. Patients wi’ll be offered free cholesterol tests, EKGs, diabetes testing and HIV tests.
— In the next decade, 30 million women will benefit from the new healthcare reform law, according to a brief issued by the Commonwealth Fund. The brief reports that the law will stabilize and reverse health care costs that had been on the rise because insurance industry standards had assessed women as more high-risk than men.
— “Women do almost as well as men today, as long as they don’t have children.” The New York Times takes a look at men, women and being a parent in the workforce.
— With women earning and controlling more money than ever before, Women & Co. takes a look at women’s philanthropy and the nine Cs of women’s giving.
