Issues In The News
"Nationally, the Recovery Act's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families emergency fund provides training and work to young adults... -- and to adults who have a child. They also must be U.S. citizens with a household income level of less than 200 percent of the poverty level..."
"I was medical director of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless. They were probably one of the most generously funded and resource-rich homeless programs in the country."
"As part of the stimulus package, the federal government was willing to directly cover the wages of people who worked either for small businesses or local governments. Across the country, about 130,000 low-income adults got jobs. The program will expire at the end of September..."
"Residents in The Cedars, just south of downtown, won a battle this year against proposed housing for the homeless in their neighborhood. Now they have set strict guidelines for the kind of housing they will accept in the future."
"As homeless shelters statewide begin seeing more and more people affected by the economic crisis, funding is getting harder to come by."
"'I believe the recession and the stress caused by poverty, unemployment, homelessness and two or three families having to move into one home are all starting to take their toll,' Ploehn said."
"For some of the biggest property owners along the planned Cincinnati streetcar route, the 8-mile line will deliver revitalized storefronts, rising property values... Others are worried that new development prospects will exclude or even harm some of the city's poorest residents..."
"In Central America, she found an unexpected career based on her skills as a serious home cook: teaching low-income women how to cook gourmet meals. As they learned to prepare meals, they seemed to develop a sense of confidence and self-worth."
"Those borrowers with lower incomes or credit scores, or who have less than 30 percent equity in their homes, often cannot qualify for the lowest mortgage rates because lenders consider them to be riskier."
"Ortega knows risks. He is from Apatzingan in Michoacan, where drug gangs have shot federal agents and terrorized the impoverished farm town. Roberto Hernandez de Rosas... said his family paid a smuggler $1,500 to take him and his brother across the Arizona desert..."
"They also provide referrals to the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, another organization that does pro bono work for low-income people. The Atlanta Legal Aid Society prioritizes cases where the person is particularly vulnerable to domestic violence, disability or illness."
"Among those who support changing Wichita's policy is a former school nurse who said she was reprimanded several times for administering over-the-counter medications to students at a predominantly low-income elementary school."
"The 2001 law aimed to discourage schools from writing off children who tend to fall behind, such as students who don't speak English at home, students with disabilities and low-income students."
"Low-income residents in Middle Georgia and across the state will now have more access to fruits, vegetables and other food sold at farmers markets, thanks to a statewide effort that allows people to make purchases with their electronic benefit transfer cards."
"And meanwhile, the Teach for America concept continues to be debated nationally, with disagreement on whether promising college graduates with only weeks of training can boost student performance in low-income communities."
"There is no doubt that this recession has hit middle- and lower-income families the hardest -- families that play by the rules, pay their taxes and depend on a steady paycheck. Our economy hinges on these families, and it is up to us to make sure that they stay working."
"MCS students are not lazy, and they're certainly not afraid of hard work. With 23.1 percent of people in Memphis living below the poverty level, just being able to get everything on their school supply list is a challenge for many students."
"The book is based on interviews with homeless people, visits to homeless centers and 'through learning to dumpster dive for plastic bottles to create the ECO Shelter, furniture, a boat and other survival items,' according to a news release."
"The federal government views such 'safety net' centers as an efficient way to bring primary care to low-income groups that include minorities and immigrants in urban and rural communities, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services..."
"The state has become increasingly dependent on instant scratch-off games, which today generate 75 cents of every lottery dollar. Yet such games are more likely to be played by 'less educated and lower income' residents, according to the Texas Lottery Commission's research."
"However, even if the state continues to fund child care for low-income families... troubles facing local preschools and day care centers are far from over. Unemployment and the slow economy have forced many families to consider other, perhaps cheaper alternatives..."
"Hudson County also has one of the highest poverty rates in the state. Between 2006 and 2008 it was at 12 percent while the state average was 7 percent and the national average 10 percent, according to ACS data."
"In America the fastest growing segment of the population in poverty is children and single mothers from divorce, separation or abandonment. A woman with two children, one in school, now has to go find a job to support her family even though she hasn't worked a day in her life."
"Section 8 is a federal rental-housing subsidy program for low-income people administered by the Housing Authority of Contra Costa County. Antioch has approximately 1,900 Section 8 rental units."
"Meath says her group is working with council now to have the ordinance strengthened to have the living wage indexed for inflation and extended to all city contract workers. 'The whole idea is that our tax dollars should be spent to support living wages, not poverty wages,' Meath says."
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