The latest news, analysis and opinion on the state of low-income women and their families from Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity. This week: Why some residents who are eligible for food stamps are still struggling to receive them. Plus, how the new health care legislation will help low-income, uninsured pregnant women and new mothers.
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Here’s this week’s news:
· Amanda Vaca tells KansasCity.com about her three-month struggle to obtain food stamps despite being eligible, a situation that many low-income families are facing in an environment of strained state public assistance programs.
· The New York Times reports on the closing of St. Michael Academy, an all-girls parochial school whose student body was predominately low-income.
·Alaska governor Sean Parnell vetoed Denali KidCare, a program for needy women and children, upon learning that it also provides abortions if the mother’s life is at risk, according to Elise Patkotak in an Anchorage Daily News op-ed.
·A Washington Post article outlines how the new health care legislation will improve the situation of poor, uninsured pregnant women and new mothers.
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