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 2/18/2011: Moms and Jobs. Family Planning. A new health care debate.
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Here’s this week’s news:
• The Boston Globe profiles MoJo, short for Moms and Jobs, a for-profit apparel company that employs low-income single mothers, and pays them good wages and benefits and covers the entire cost of child care.
• An op-ed in the Asbury Park Press speaks out against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s decision to veto the State Legislature’s recent proposal to extend more funding for family planning services to the state’s neediest women and families.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution publishes an editorial opposing the Georgia Legislature’s proposed $80,000 cut to funding for free legal representation to victims of domestic violence, most of whom are disenfranchised women and children.
• State lawmakers, poised to drop health-care coverage for thousands, say poor people who still qualify for the state’s Medicaid program, including pregnant women, should take greater responsibility for their health care, as discussed in The Arizona Republic.
• In an effort to battle obesity, the City of Baltimore and Weight Watchers are teaming up to use $100,000 in federal stimulus money to launch a program offering 93 women in three low-income city neighborhoods free Weight Watchers meetings and passes to the YMCA for nine weeks, according to the Baltimore Sun.
• The New York Times reports that the National Domestic Violence Hotline released research findings demonstrating that men who abuse women physically and emotionally may also sabotage their .
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