Women and Poverty News

The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 31, 2010: Women's shelter shifting to YWCA

"The YWCA of Greater Cincinnati eventually will run the city's homeless shelter for women. For the time being, the 42 beds for single homeless women will remain at the Drop Inn Center in Over-the-Rhine."

The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 30, 2010: Home for women to get $12M makeover

"The Anna Louise Inn, the city's largest residence for homeless women, will undergo a $12 million renovation next summer. City leaders say the project... means a stable future for the inn, which has provided shelter for low-income females for the last 100 years."

Newsday, August 29, 2010: From a shelter to a campus

"In June, Vantaja, 17, graduated from Malverne High School. She is an honors graduate, a scholarship recipient, and this week she is due to become a freshman at Nassau Community College. Until February, she was homeless."

The Boston Globe, August 29, 2010: (Op-Ed) The most important thing to know about Social Security is that it's insurance

"President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935. Since then, it has unquestionably kept millions of people - most importantly, the elderly and disabled - from the depths of poverty.

The State, August 29, 2010: Growing girls into powerful women

"Let it sink in, Monicka Carey-Green told her girls. Green, the founder and executive director of DIVA, a nonprofit organization for low-income and at-risk girls, uses Beyonce's song as a teaching tool."

Sacramento Bee, August 28, 2010: Homeless World Cup

"'Meth. That's never a good drug,' Wrightsman said. Jail and homelessness followed. At 29, however, she's on her way back up again, living at Volunteers of America's Mather Community Campus and heading to Brazil to play for the United States in the Homeless World Cup."

Sun-Sentinel, August 28, 2010: Special savings accounts can help break cycle of poverty

"But the San Francisco health care worker decided to break the cycle of poverty. Now, the 38-year-old is a college graduate on the cusp of opening her own business. She is also raising a high-achieving teenager who is in a position to win merit-based college scholarships"

The Advocate, August 28, 2010: Ex-homeless woman to tell tale of success

"Liz Murray's journey from homelessness to Harvard University isn't a religious story in any traditional sense. Yet, Renee Craft, executive director of HOPE Ministries, couldn't help but see in it something appropriately encouraging for her clients."

The Washington Post, August 27, 2010: Study links poverty, mother's depression

"More than half of babies in poverty are being raised by mothers who show symptoms of mild to severe depression, potentially creating problems in parenting and in child development, according to a study."

Courier-Post, August 26, 2010: Governor was wrong to veto funding for women's health care

"A case in point is occurring in New Jersey, where Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bipartisan bill authorizing $7.4 million to help thousands of low-income women and their families receive vital health care services, including cancer screenings and other essential medical tests."

Times-Picayune, August 25, 2010: The elderly and frail are more likely to take up in abandoned buildings

"The house, which sits on a particularly bleak block choked by weeds and vacant buildings, wasn't theirs, but it was shelter in the neighborhood where they'd grown up. The siblings are part of a disproportionate number of sick and elderly living in blighted buildings since Katrina..."

Today's Sunbeam, August 24, 2010: After nearly a year, Family Promise still going strong

"On Aug. 31, Family Promise of Salem County (FPSC) will celebrate its first year in existence. They helped their first homeless family that day last year, and the single mom of two has since found a home and two jobs."

Orlando Sentinel, August 20, 2010: Tiny charity struggles to fill big void for needy students

"It has been 17 years since Debra Thomas was homeless with her infant daughter, but the experience still defines her. In 2004, it drove her to start a tiny nonprofit to help others facing the same misery she had."

Albuquerque Journal, August 19, 2010: Residential Treatment Center To Close

"A drug rehabilitation center for homeless women will be shuttered because of the economic downturn, leaving fewer options for those looking to start over.Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless will close Tierra del Sol, its 11-bed residential treatment center for women..."

The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2010: Wisconsin Makes Push on Free Birth Control

"Wisconsin is pushing to expand a controversial program that uses federal Medicaid funds to provide free birth-control pills, vasectomies and other forms of contraception to low-income people, an effort made possible by the federal health-care overhaul."

San Luis Obispo Tribune, August 14, 2010: San Luis Obispo County Office of Education gets a lesson in 'Poverty 101'

"A prominent expert on poverty who dropped out of school as a teen but went on to earn a doctorate in education brought her experience to San Luis Obispo County on Friday."

The New York Times, August 13, 2010: Paying for Child Care, Unless It’s From a Parent

"The basic premise inspiring so many government subsidies — that any work, even menial work, is a first step out of poverty — has a hearty hopefulness to it and some logic."

The Miami Herald, August 12, 2010: Children at center of immigration debate

"Gaitán, 29, says she came to the U.S. to follow her husband, who had come here earlier, escape poverty at home and send money to her family back in Nicaragua"

The New York Times, August 4, 2010: A Market Punishing To Mothers

"On the other end of the spectrum, low-income women generally do not have a choice between career and family. Many are single parents. Their chances of escaping poverty are hurt by the long-term costs of taking time off after childbirth and having little flexibility in their schedules."

Chicago Tribune, August 4, 2010: 'Housing first,' plus help that lasts

"For Jacqueline Parker, the road to homelessness was dazzling and well-lit. The 63-year-old Mississippi native had an apartment and a job when she began accompanying a friend to a Chicago-area casino to play the slot machines."

The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 4, 2010: Restoring money to New Jersey women's health centers appears unlikely

"We need to corral every vote possible to ensure that the health of low-income women throughout this state is not a casualty of political ideologies."

Chicago Tribune, July 31, 2010: Suburbia's heroin addiction

"It takes a perverse brand of courage to be a heroin addict -- a willingness to risk poverty, shame, incarceration, violence and death in pursuit of the rush. When Katie Bagdonas, 29, was ready to quit, she had to turn that bravery in a new direction."

The Indianapolis Star, July 29, 2010: State's girls at higher risk of violence

"But, she said, it might have something to do with the conservative culture in these parts, which can create a reluctance to have open and honest conversations about sex. Economic downturns, and the poverty... that follow, also can raise the likelihood of sexual violence, she said."

The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 28, 2010: New Jersey women's health centers react to cuts

"New Jersey's family planning health centers are bracing for reduced hours, layoffs, and even closings after Gov. Christie's veto of a bill to restore $7.5 million for women's health services."

The Cincinnati Enquirer, July 26, 2010: Butler program's goal: Get out of poverty

"Then her life turned to chaos, quickly sinking her financial position from middle-class to poverty. Her third child was born premature and later was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Then there was a divorce and child support payments that never came."

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