Issues In The News
"He is rambunctious and much thinner. Weaned off the drugs through a program affiliated with Tulane University that is aimed at helping low-income families whose children have mental health problems, Kyle now laughs easily and teases his family."
"The neighbors also say - and this is controversial - that having a cash-for-cans outlet in the park tends to encourage homeless campers. They show up with a shopping cart full of cans in the morning, collect $30 to $40, and use that money to buy everything from food to booze to drugs."
"He would carve out $127 million - a full one-third of the resources available to meet the low-income housing needs...- to create permanently supported housing for one of Missouri's most vulnerable populations: people suffering from acute metal illness and chronic homelessness."
"Soliciting in the streets is illegal in Illinois except in communities with ordinances that allow it. Those rules vary from place to place: Some restrict it to certain streets and certain hours. Some require reflective clothing. Most require liability insurance."
"Limited research on this calendar shows some positive impact on test scores, particularly for low-income elementary students. In Chicago, year-round students last year posted slightly better gains on test scores than did students in schools on the regular calendar."
"Lifelong St. Bernard Parish resident Sharon Sylvia, 57, is among the many residents who have fallen on hard times. In addition to some recent medical problems, Sylvia has struggled to find a job and has since become homeless."
"A task force focused on reducing hunger in Kansas was extended by the governor on Wednesday. 'Despite the fact that we live in a place like... the United States, we continue to have problems with poverty,' said Gov. Mark Parkinson. "One of those problems is... hunger.'"
"As executive director of HomeAid Tampa Bay, a nonprofit group that works to help the homeless rebuild their lives with 'dignified shelters,' Bobbie Shay Lee often engages the less fortunate."
"Three groups from Garden City have opened a dental clinic for low-income residents of Dodge City. The clinic is a project of the United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries, the Oral Health Taskforce and the Ford County Oral Health Commission."
"The numbers of those below poverty are growing as rifts in an already broken American financial system are connecting in a nationwide Grand Canyon of financial woes with little effort to create a New Deal-type attack on the problem."
"One option, Hayes said, might be to tailor money to districts' needs. For instance, fast-growing districts could get extra dollars to keep up with the influx of students. Also, students from low-income backgrounds could bring more money than more affluent students."
"The University of Great Falls received a nearly $1.5 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to provide specialized counseling and tutoring to students from low-income families [and] students who are the first in their family to attend college..."
"Emanuel Community Development Corp. Inc., was awarded a $620,000 grant for the Whitney Crescent Project, which will help finance the construction of eight new buildings in Glassboro. The new buildings will provide 79 units of rental housing for very low-income families."
"The standards are strict. Applicants are eligible only if they would be homeless if not for the assistance. They must also show the potential to maintain housing after the financial help runs out, said Gerald Smith of Tarrant County Human Services."
"Dilapidated does not describe it. Dangerous does not convey the peril. And unhealthy does not illustrate the conditions. Dozens of low-income residents share those conditions - along with rats and bedbugs - at Willow Court Apartments in west Jackson."
"In CMS, 62 percent of the black students graduate on time; it's 55 percent for Latinos and 60 percent for low-income kids. About 9,600 ninth-graders just entered CMS high schools. If trends continue, 2,880 of them will be gone when their class graduates in 2014."
"The growth of these low-wage jobs began in the 1980s, accelerated in the 1990s and began to really take off in the 2000s. Losing out in the shuffle, Dr. Autor said, were jobs that he described as 'middle-skill, middle-wage' — entry-level white-collar positions..."
"The news conference in downtown's Vista Hermosa Park, with a view of the smoggy skyline, underscored the effort by opponents of the initiative to rally low-income Californians who live in heavily polluted neighborhoods. Materials were released in Spanish."
""Every time we open a new Title I school, they open with a parenting center," she said.
A school typically qualifies for Title I status if at least 40 percent of its students come from low-income families as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau."
"Rising welfare and homeless shelter caseloads are further burdening the budget, even as the state has qualified for $250 million in federal aid for school programs and received $450 million in other federal aid, said Senate Ways and Means chairman Steven C. Panagiotakos."
"Approving those taxes would spare the state's welfare-to-work program, provide state-subsidized child care to low-income families and give schools an additional $323 per pupil. The taxes also would avoid higher co-pays... on doctor visits for Medi-Cal patients."
"If being homeless had an upside, you might suppose that at least it's free. Except it's not -- not if you want to stay at most Central Florida shelters...But in the worst economy in decades, even the homeless are getting poorer, with many struggling to come up with as little as $2 to $10 a night."
"'They're certainly acting together,' he said. Passel said illegal immigrants now find it more expensive and dangerous to cross into the U.S. and also have less incentive to do given the languishing job market in construction and other low-wage industries."
"'The town where I'm from, it's like being in jail, it's like a death,' said Hernandez, who is from a mountain village in the impoverished southern state of Puebla. 'You have to think twice about crossing the desert, but when you don't have any money, you need to look for a better life.'"
"The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades decreasing by 8 percent as the sour economy dried up jobs and increased enforcement made it harder to sneak across the border with Mexico, a new study finds."
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