NEW FUNDING COMING FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES?
Posted on January 9, 2009. Filed under: HOUSING, Mothers in Poverty, The New Depression, poverty and government | Tags: benefits, bill, check, children, congress, contact, dc, deep poverty, depression, donovan, economic, economic stimulus, economy, families, family, finance, foreclosure, funding, help, homeless, house, HOUSING, hud, legislation, mothers, needy, new, obama, pay, policy, poor, poverty, poverty level, program, recession, rent, renters, representatives, section 8, senate, senator, shaun, single, social, subsidized, support, tenants, unemployment, voucher, washington, welfare |
I REALLY HOPE SO! according to this article, there are requests being formally made to congress for big funding to be a part of the new bailout and economic recovery bills.
The article says something about the housing provisions being only a fraction of one percent of the entire bill. WOW. I think we should [...]
Poor Mothers and Kids Routinely Battered in Court
Posted on June 30, 2008. Filed under: Mothers in Poverty | Tags: abuse, abuser, author, bias, book, children, Coral Theill, courts, divorce, domestic, dv, emotional, mother, motherhood, power, survivor, trauma, violence |
Motherhood is truly sacred. But mothers are routinely victimized in today’s courts, as are their children. Poverty is one of the factors determining their lack of success in the courts and associated process.
This author, Coral Theill, has survived such traumas that destroy motherhood and mother-child relationships, at the hands of those who should protect [...]
