WF Board Member Seetha Srinivasan congratulates Carol Burnett, a longtime partner of the Women's Fund of Mississippi, for receiving a Gloria Award. Carol is one of the first women ordained by the Methodist church in Mississippi and the executive director of both the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative and Moore Community House.
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State cuts to child care subsidies push more low-income parents toward welfare (New York Times)
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Over 40 states have cut services for children from their state budgets. One of the most important support services for families is child care. However, due to these budget cuts, many states have placed children eligible for subsidized child care on waiting lists and prioritized two types of families/children: those under the supervision of child protective services - which looks after abuse and neglect cases - and those receiving cash assistance (welfare). In an effort to avoid welfare through work, many women have arrived at welfare's door because they can't get child care assistance unless they are on welfare (one of the 2 priority areas). According to former Republican Congressional aid Ron Haskins, "To tell people that the only way they can get day care is to go on welfare defeats the purpose of the whole thing."
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TIME examines various theories behind the rise of honor killings in India
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Activists say dozens of people, both women and men, are killed for "honor" every year, falling victim to the deeply entrenched caste system, which dictates an individual's social standing based on the caste they are born into. The majority of these killings take place in the agrarian states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, where land ownership and caste go hand in hand and an honor culture thrives by maintaining caste and gender hierarchies. This situation is aggravated by modernity, as more and more young people want to marry for love instead of family or caste considerations.
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New study finds that effects of low-quality child care last into adolescence (Washington Post)
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According to new results from the largest, most authoritative assessment of child rearing in the United States, low-quality care in the first few years of life can have a small but long-lasting impact on a child's learning and behavior. The federally funded study, which has been tracking more than 1,300 children since 1991, found that obedience and academic problems among those who received low-quality care in their first 4 1/2 years of life persisted through their 15th birthdays, suggesting the potential for lifelong difficulties. Several experts praised the findings, saying they underscore the urgent need for local, state and federal governments, employers and others to improve access to high-quality child care.
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