Interesting views all around today on philanthropy, the economy, health and single motherhood. Happy reading!

Health:

A TIME Magazine article looks at whether abortion coverage could sink a health care reform plan:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1909178,00.html

Amnesty International released a report yesterday calling Peru’s maternal morbidity rate ‘scandalous’ (CNN):
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/09/peru.pregnant.mortality/

A commentary in the Tri-State Defender (Memphis) calls on health care reform to address problems affecting African-Americans:
http://tri-statedefenderonline.com/articlelive/articles/3907/1/Reforms-s...

Health on the Blogs:


Change.org asks a New York Times reporter about mainstream coverage of health issues:
http://globalhealth.change.org/blog/view/mainstream_media_and_global_hea...

Philanthropy:

Wal-Mart has given $400,000 to Business and Professional Women’s Foundation to promote green jobs for women (Frederick News Post (Md.)):
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/business/display.htm?StoryID=9...

Philanthropy on the Blogs:


Chronicle of Philanthropy looks at whether President Obama has declared a war on philanthropy:
http://philanthropy.com/giveandtake/index.php?id=1119

The Economy:

A Detroit Free Press columnist looks at local programs that address economic abuse against women:
http://www.freep.com/article/20090709/COL07/907090584/1081/Learning+to+f...

CNBC ‘Fast Money’ anchor Karen Finerman talks about women, power and money (Huffingtonpost.com):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-finerman/power-and-money_b_228091.ht...

An opinion in the Denver Post calls on first ladies to boycott Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi at the G8 summit:
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12789015

Violence:

Ms. Magazine reprises yesterday’s U.N. report on rising violence against women in Afghanistan:
http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=11806

Social workers in the Ohio River Valley Region say child abuse caused by single mothers’ boyfriends is on the rise (Wheeling, W.Va. NBC affiliate):
http://www.wtov9.com/news/20007526/detail.html

Education:

A report from the Yemen News Agency discusses the approval process by religious leaders of national girls’ education plans:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news188733.htm

Miscellaneous:

A commentary on CaribbeanNetNews calls on society to change how they view single mothers:
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-17559--6-6--.html