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 3/11/2011: A new report about women in America. Plus, the difficulty homeless veterans have accessing services.
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Here’s this week’s news:
• The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports that the county Public Health Department recently released statistics showing a drop in late-teen birth rates; the agency also said that “teenage mothers are less likely to graduate from high school [and] their children are at risk for poorer health and developmental disabilities.”
• A recent White House report, “Women in America,” stated that women still lag behind men in pay, health, and employment opportunities, adding that women are more likely than men to live in poverty, and the poverty rate of female-headed households is more than three times as high as that of married couples, as discussed in the Asheville Citizen-Times.
• In his weekly radio address, President Obama pledged last week to maintain a focus on women’s equality, saying that as a father he wants “his girls [to] grow up in a world where there are no limits to what they can achieve,” according to the Associated Press.
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram interviews homeless female veterans who often have a hard time accessing services like housing programs that are specifically tailored to serve them.
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