Finally, the media realizes that the poor are impacted by the recession, too.

Finally, after all of my concern, conveyed through blogs like this one, about how the media isn’t covering the recession from the perspective of those

Job training and creation should also be the solution for unemployed single mothers.

Thank you to the Joint Economic Committee for drawing attention to rising unemployment among women-headed families in its new report, “Women in the Recession:

Join us for the 2009 Stepping Stones Research Briefing on women and the recession.

Sunday is Mother’s Day – and the media are already filled with stories about mothers and motherhood and the recession. For example, here and

The 10 plagues, D.C. style.

Tonight, Jews around the world (including me) will begin celebrating Passover. During Passover, we retell the story of the exodus from Egypt – the

Congratulations to Vera Mayer, Public Citizen of the Year!

The Women’s Foundation is proud to congratulate Vera Mayer, senior advocate with Iona Senior Services and coalition coordinator with the DC Coalition on Long

D.C.'s HIV/AIDS report forgets women, but I haven't.

Inspired – and alarmed – by my colleague Lisa Kays’s blog post earlier this week about off-the-charts HIV/AIDS rates in the District of Columbia,

New Stepping Stones RFP focuses on increasing and preserving women's economic security in difficult times.

These are hard times for many, but especially for women-headed families. Much has been written about the overall U.S. unemployment rate, which rose to

Almost half of Boston teens blame Rihanna, not Chris, for her attack.

As a follow-on to my colleague Gwen’s thoughtful post on the Rihanna domestic violence situation and the way it’s being handled in the media,

Coverage of Rihanna fails to take advantage of an otherwise teachable moment.

As a 40-something (and a late one at that), I never thought I’d be blogging, let alone blogging about the young pop star Rihanna.

Focusing on not being able to afford a $15 martini? What about workers earning $15,000/year?

I have a few story ideas to pitch to the Washington Post, which has devoted scarce front-page inches in the last week to articles

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