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Displaced homemakers seek aid through state bill SB 825
The article follows Wilma Betty and Vere, displaced homemakers facing loneliness, poverty, and limited support after divorce or widowhood. It describes their struggles to find work, loss of benefits, and reliance on alimony or small incomes, while lawmakers consider SB 825 to create Alameda County a center offering counseling, job training, placement, and health care services for such women.
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Wilma
Ges
Betty
Hem
Pye
Fremont
Jerry Smith
Santa Clara
Alameda County
Santa Clara County
Senate Finance Committee
California
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Muriel Sundell
Hayward
State Employment Development Department
Ms. Sundell
Emily Sudduth
Newark
F A
Ohlone College
Sacramento
Alliance For the Displaced Homemaker
Oakland
Lucile Dunham
International
Business and Professional Women
Senate
Assembly