–Dani McClain, reporter for the Nation Magazine covers the newly released report by the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative (SRBWI) of the Children’s Defense Fund and authored by the Center for Research and Policy in the Public Interest entitled Unequal Lives: The State of Black Women and Families in the Rural South
The Groundbreaking report analyzes data culled from the Census and state agencies as well as stories shared during listening groups with more than 200 women and girls. The nine counties studied were defined as persistently poor by the US Department of Agriculture, meaning that at least 20 percent of population has lived in poverty for more than five consecutive years.
To read the article, click here: Nation Covers 2015 SRBWI Report