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"They may have dorm rooms to sleep in during the school year, but many college students are technically homeless -- with no place to call home when classes aren't in session."

"Universities aren't required to track homelessness, so the exact size of the problem is unknown. But more than 33,000 students nationwide declared themselves homeless on federal student aid applications last year, the first time the question was included."

"The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released the findings of its latest Kids Count policy report, ���The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success.� ���The First Eight Years� outlines how early development in key areas of well-being are imperative in finding success during the elementary years, and what impact poverty can have on that development."

"Should additional support for retirees get first priority, given that the rich can be tapped only so many times - and that economic privation in this country is disproportionately common among the young, not the old? The poverty rate for seniors in 2012 averaged 9.1 percent, much lower than the rate for children, which was 21.8 percent, and lower than the overall U.S. rate of 15 percent."

"The D.C. Council gave its tentative but unanimous approval Tuesday to a bill that would funnel extra dollars to public schools serving low-income students and others at risk of academic failure."

"No child has ever chosen to be poor. Children have never caused the poverty that defines their lives and their education."

"A stigma of shame stalks government health care for the poor and could affect the education children receive in school."

"For many students at America's elite colleges, these are as much a part of university life as pulling all-nighters and complaining about dining hall food. But for low-income students, these are not only unaffordable luxuries, but part of a topic that can be more taboo than sexual orientation: the size of their wallets."

"More students across the state and in Howard County are living in low-income households and schools are finding ways to accommodate those students."

"The D.C. Council's education committee on Monday unanimously approved a bill that aims to provide the city's public schools with additional money to help low-income students and others at risk of academic failure."

"Teacher merit pay. It's one of those perennially popular policy ideas that, historically, hasn't worked very well."

"You know poverty when your dinner for a few days until the next food stamps come in is buttered crackers or grape jelly on dough gods,' which are flat-tasting pancake-type things made of fried flour and water. I hated them, even doused in sugar, and longed for real pancakes."