Women And Poverty Commentaries
"[O]ur patients represent all the highest-risk categories: the working poor, the newly immigrated, people living in long-term poverty and the unemployed"
"Teen births don't help the mother, child or society. There are higher risks of medical problems during and after birth, and most mothers end up in poverty"
"In a 2005 study, 'The Consequences of Marriage for African Americans,' five scholars concluded that in the black community, a healthy marriage keeps families from slipping into poverty"
"It will reduce a big financial burden on college-age and low-income women while helping to drive down the number of unplanned pregnancies"
"She works with Baltimore children in foster care, children born at the bottom, boys and girls who know poverty, abandonment and abuse before they know anything else"
"So a public policy that concentrates on lifting them out of poverty can help those children succeed, no matter the choices their parents made"
"It's a devastating blow to DuBose, to her 57 classmates, and to the school that provides a path out of poverty for its students - most of whom are low-income, African-American women"
"And it's this lack of a proper diet, along with missed prenatal visits and widespread poverty, that has provoked a health crisis in some areas of the city for African-American babies"
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