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families earns poverty level wages. These figures
have rapidly increased within the last two decades.
In his powerful and eye-opening book The Working Poor: Invisible In America, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Shipler makes the profound assertion that the term "working poor", words when used together describe the socioeconomic status of over 13 million Americans, should be an oxymoron. Like Shipler, we too contend that no one that works hard should be poor in America.
Women's Opportunity Link of Delaware, Inc. was created in an effort to address the quagmire facing our state's working poor by offering a realistic and progressive poverty-reduction strategy to motivated low-income and underemployed women wanting to become financially secure and self-sufficient.
It is our position that the most effective approach to reducing poverty among motivated low-income and underemployed working women is to promote the participation in, and completion of short-to-moderate term living wage job training programs that lead to occupations in high demand. We believe that through providing clients with the opportunities, resources, and support systems necessary to engage in valuable job training programs, participants can attain living wage marketable skill sets, meet their career goals, and become financially secure and self-sufficient. We have developed a series of unique program components that when combined provides clients with an effective and holistic approach to empowerment, and our model has proven to be successful in providing low-income and underemployed women a path out of poverty.
My sincere thanks for taking an interest in WOLDE. I do hope that you will join us in our effort for social change through volunteering or making a donation. Simply put - without your help, we cannot help others.
Jennifer Rehm-Clark, Founder/Executive Director
In his powerful and eye-opening book The Working Poor: Invisible In America, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Shipler makes the profound assertion that the term "working poor", words when used together describe the socioeconomic status of over 13 million Americans, should be an oxymoron. Like Shipler, we too contend that no one that works hard should be poor in America.
Women's Opportunity Link of Delaware, Inc. was created in an effort to address the quagmire facing our state's working poor by offering a realistic and progressive poverty-reduction strategy to motivated low-income and underemployed women wanting to become financially secure and self-sufficient.
It is our position that the most effective approach to reducing poverty among motivated low-income and underemployed working women is to promote the participation in, and completion of short-to-moderate term living wage job training programs that lead to occupations in high demand. We believe that through providing clients with the opportunities, resources, and support systems necessary to engage in valuable job training programs, participants can attain living wage marketable skill sets, meet their career goals, and become financially secure and self-sufficient. We have developed a series of unique program components that when combined provides clients with an effective and holistic approach to empowerment, and our model has proven to be successful in providing low-income and underemployed women a path out of poverty.
My sincere thanks for taking an interest in WOLDE. I do hope that you will join us in our effort for social change through volunteering or making a donation. Simply put - without your help, we cannot help others.
Jennifer Rehm-Clark, Founder/Executive Director
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As you know, there are over 35 million Americans
living in poverty - the majority of those are women
and their children. In Delaware, there are
approximately 10,000 families that are poor - of
those, 8,000 work. Within the U.S. there are
approximately 13 million "working poor". In 2003,
7.3 million children in the United States lived in
a working-poor family, while today one in four
working