Social Justice

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/

Today’s roundup is extensive, due to the long holiday weekend. Happy reading!

An Influential Woman:

The New York Times profiles Michèle A. Flournoy, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the Pentagon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/us/04flournoy.html?em

Economic Security:

The New York Times profiles a program in the city that aims to help homeless people, many of them single women with children, on the path to economic security:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/nyregion/06homeless.html?ref=nyregion

A relatively quiet news day ahead of a long holiday weekend in the U.S. The top is dedicated to today’s unemployment report. Happy reading!

The Economy:

The U.S. economy lost 467,000 jobs in June as the national unemployment rate hit 9.5% (New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/business/economy/03jobs.html?_r=1&hp

Scroll down for headlines about the issues that women’s fund work on. New to this edition – Women’s Fund Blog Round Up – a quick digest of what women’s funds are blogging about during the day.

Happy reading!

Women’s Health:

The People’s Weekly World says that for women health reform is about work and wages
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16175/

Scroll down for some news about Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania and an editorial from Women’s Foundation of California.

Economy:

A coalition of women’s groups is pressuring the New Zealand government on pay equity (Scoop Independent News):
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00330.htm

An editorial by Women’s Foundation of California in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle discusses inequalities in pay for women and LGBT employees:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/27/INDL18E8FO.D...