Women and Poverty News
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's also true that while men still dominate the American power elite, they also dominate the bottom rungs of the ladder. By some counts, America's prisoners are 90 percent male, and most estimates are that homeless people are disproportionately male."
"A woman who allowed a former friend's needy children to stay in her apartment rent free for nearly three years before they abandoned her with a $1,200 electric bill had her power turned back on after getting help... from the D.C. Department of the Environment's Energy Office."
"The agency is overhauling the Independent Living program under a legislative mandate after outcomes among foster graduates show dismal education levels and slight increases in homeless and jobless rates."
"Nadeah Rasheed got an offer in 2008 that she could not refuse: find a stable job and the city would pay virtually all her rent. If everything went as planned, she and her two daughters would leave homelessness behind forever."
"The program is affiliated with San Francisco General and UC San Francisco and serves about 750 patients a year. Most come from neighborhoods scarred by poverty and crime. It has been threatened with budget cuts... which took it over three years ago."
"A lot are low-income. Many are Spanish speakers. Some are immigrants, legal and illegal. Most are families, two-parent or single-parent. Some are senior citizens. Some are upper-middle-class with manicured lawns and shiny imported cars."
"The Women's Housing Coalition has provided more than a roof over Yvonne Stovall's head. The nonprofit organization that houses homeless women in Baltimore has helped her to let go."
"Another Third Circuit panel last week slapped the government for arguing that the court had no jurisdiction to consider the case of an impoverished legal immigrant who had been ordered deported without being told of the availability of free legal help, contrary to court rules."
"In Wellesley, Women of Means, which coordinates volunteer physicians for homeless women and victims of domestic violence, used its $10,000 grant to computerize health care enrollment systems for its clients and to build an Internet resource that connects providers to its programs."
"Focusing on helping fight childhood obesity and homeless health problems, Mercy Medical Center has grants available worth $82,000... This year the grants are available to groups focusing on childhood obesity, health issues for the homeless and teen pregnancy."
"The medical center auxiliary coordinates the Newborn Layette Project, which has been a community service for more than 30 years. The project assembles layettes for needy newborns, and as many as 200 layettes are given to low-income mothers..."
"Choosing a pageant platform is an important part of being a Miss Mississippi contestant, and for some, it's personal. Miss Deep South Julie Amelia Falgout was homeless after Hurricane Katrina ravaged her home."
"But what makes this project distinct is that the children live in a homeless shelter. They are residents of the Lowdon-Schutts women and children's building, part of the Presbyterian Night Shelter complex in Fort Worth."
"Her search for help eventually took her to Deborah's Place, where, after a year on a waiting list, she found shelter in one of the organization's apartments for homeless women about seven years ago. From there, the other pieces began falling into place."
"She said the district will only serve the neediest of preschoolers. She has a list of more than 20 considerations when deciding which children to accept. Some of those include family poverty level, education of parents and the number of caregivers in the home."
"Shelter Health Services is unique among Charlotte's health clinics for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that all its doctors are volunteers and all its patients are homeless women and children from the Salvation Army's Center of Hope."
"They specify targets for reducing poverty, ending educational disparities between the sexes, decreasing childhood mortality and cutting HIV incidence (among other things), to be reached by 2015."
"According to ESAAA's CEO, Diane Musso, heating energy assistance can only be provided to those low-income homes that are energy efficient."
"But the truth was, things got horrible Saturday night, at a time when lots of bad stuff goes down, and she learned there is little comfort for a homeless family at that hour in the nation's capital."
"Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says $5.1 million from the settlement will benefit health services for low-income women."
"A Brooklyn teen who wasn't allowed to take a final exam because she is homeless finally got her diploma yesterday. 'We did it! We did it!' Rosa Bracero said at the High School for Civil Rights, her face buried in her mom's shoulder."
"Tamara Brown waited two years to get on a list that would line her up for a Section 8 housing voucher. Her goal of getting out of Roanoke's homeless shelters and into an apartment or house could still be months -- if not a year or more -- away, but Tuesday she came a step closer."
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