Women And Poverty Commentaries

The Baltimore Sun, March 23, 2009: (Op-Ed) A prescription for healthy babies

"[O]ur patients represent all the highest-risk categories: the working poor, the newly immigrated, people living in long-term poverty and the unemployed"

The Lowell Sun, March 23, 2009: (Editorial) Baby boom is not all good news

"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"

The Lexington Herald Leader, March 19, 2009: (Op-Ed) Marriage is more than economics

"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"

The New York Times, March 14, 2009: (Editorial) Progress on Family Planning

"It will reduce a big financial burden on college-age and low-income women while helping to drive down the number of unplanned pregnancies"

The Baltimore Sun, March 15, 2009: (Op-Ed) Uplifting deed means more in down economy

"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"

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 15, 2009: (Op-Ed) Put the onus on poverty, not parentage

"So a public policy that concentrates on lifting them out of poverty can help those children succeed, no matter the choices their parents made"

The Philadelphia Daily News, March 11, 2009: The fate$ are cruel for student nurses in need

"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"

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 1, 2009: (Op-Ed) Crisis requires funding

"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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