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 the governor of one state vetoed a health insurance program for low-income families. And how losing a job sent one middle class mother and her children into poverty.
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Here’s this week’s news:
· The Associated Press reports that Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell will veto expansion of a health insurance program for low-income families because the program pays for abortions.
· The Washington Post profiles Jackelyne Aguilera, one of a half-dozen low-income women, who formerly worked as a domestic servant and is now learning carpentry skills in order to launch a new career.
·Eladia Fonseca proudly flaunts her newly renovated home to the Philadelphia Daily News, telling the paper that the low-income housing complex is no longer a haven for drug and gang activity.
·Newsday interviews Rachel Perales about how she and her four children descended from the middle class into poverty after she was laid off in December 2008.
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