Author: Joy Authur
Keeping Lives on Track
Statistics paint a harsh narrative ahead for teen mothers in the United States. The majority are already poor the day they give birth.
Less than half will earn a high school diploma by age 22, and fewer than 2 percent earn a college degree by age 30. Alarmingly, more than 18 percent of teen mothers will become pregnant again within 24 months—a circumstance that greatly increases the chance that she will not finish school and fall deeper into poverty. Studies have shown babies born to teen mothers are more likely to be underweight and drop out of school as adolescents. But the story doesn’t have to end that way. Since 1998, People’s Community Clinic has worked to make sure teen mothers write their own ending.
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Family Planning Crisis
USA Today:
People’s Community Clinic is in an article by USA Today discussing how funding for low-income women has been declining (funding for Title X) due to lobbying against Planned Parenthood. Continue reading “Family Planning Crisis”
Profiles in Power finalists: Mary McDowell
Austin Business Journal, August 14, 2015 Profiles in Power, Central Texas Women of Influence, Profiles in Power Finalists, Continue reading “Profiles in Power finalists: Mary McDowell”
PCC’s Drs. Appel and Neavel named two of Austin’s Top Doctors
Austin Monthly, September issue, by Robyn Ross, Top Doctors 2015, 258 of the Finest Pediatricians, Allergists, and Other Specialists in Town, Continue reading “PCC’s Drs. Appel and Neavel named two of Austin’s Top Doctors”