What's Happening With Women's Economic Security? A News Review for the Week Ending June 26

Below are the latest links to news items in the U.S. that discuss women and poverty. These are brought to you by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, a national foundation-led initiative, that has collaborated with the Women’s Funding Network to bring you the latest news and analysis on women and poverty.

Here are this week's links:

• The Washington Post focuses on a 19-year-old mother of two who has stayed in school with help from a program supporting teen mothers


• The Dallas Observer profiles a program that seeks to end the cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty by focusing on low-income girls’ etiquette and self-esteem


• In an op-ed in the Ithaca Citizen, contributor Jennifer Wilkins argues in favor of extending Women, Infants, and Children program benefits to farmers markets, writing that doing so will provide better nutrition to low-income families


• As reported by the Associated Press, Illinois will be making more nutritious foods available under the Women, Infants, and Children program
  
  
• The Bridgewater Courier News interviews a local mother who has a new home of her own thanks to Habitat for Humanity’s Women-Build events

This news roundup has been crossposted by Lisa Kays at Ask Us How: The Washington Area Women's Foundation blog.

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