{"id":28216,"date":"2011-09-13T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/leading_mothers_out_of_poverty_into_jobs\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:58:24","slug":"leading_mothers_out_of_poverty_into_jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28216","title":{"rendered":"Leading mothers out of poverty, into jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[There are] 21 participants in the Mother-to-Mother program, an initiative made possible through a $70,000 grant from the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina. The 12-month project targets high- poverty, unemployed mothers who do not have a high school diploma and in many cases test below the eighth-grade level in reading or math.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is for them to earn a GED and WorkKeys certificate, which is an assessment that measures real-world job skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to move toward this program model for everything we do,&#8221; said Eileen Chepenik, the association&#8217;s executive director.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/12\/leading-mothers-out-of-poverty-into-jobs\">Read it all from the front page of yesterday&#8217;s local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[There are] 21 participants in the Mother-to-Mother program, an initiative made possible through a $70,000 grant from the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina. The 12-month project targets high- poverty, unemployed mothers who do not have a high school<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28216\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,101,149,597,88,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-children","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-poverty","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}