The Daily Rundown — The Latest News Affecting Women & Girls in Our Region

In today’s rundown: Using sports to keep kids out of gangs in Northern Virginia.  The proposed Montgomery County budget hits homeless outreach programs hard.  And health care reform may not have eliminated the practice of “gender ratings.”

— A gang task force officer in Northern Virginia is using soccer to keep local kids out of gangs.  Click here to listen to a report about one of his soccer tournaments held at Northern Virginia Family Services, a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner.

–When the Montgomery County budget is finalized next month, homeless outreach programs will likely see some serious reductions in funding due to a $761 million dollar budget shortfall in the county.  One group — Volunteers of America Chesapeake — will likely lose about 40 percent of its budget and could go under.  Click here for more.

— The health care reform bill was “heralded as a way to stop health insurers from charging women higher premiums.  But loopholes still allow ‘gender rating,’ and Lisa M. Codispoti, senior counsel of the National Women’s Law Center, says women’s groups will have to fight them.”  Click here to read Codispoti’s interview with “Women’s E-news.”