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"Mt. Diablo High is among nine Contra Costa County campuses that could lose a total of nearly $7 million a year in state funding for low-income schools because of failing to meet grant requirements."

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"Because Social Security and Medicare are not means-tested, the share of transfer payments going to middle- and upper-income households tends to increase, for several reasons. The retirement age is essentially fixed, but people are living longer."

"A new report says that investing in quality child care and education will produce a well-trained work force down the road."

"Unemployment for new graduates is around 8.9 percent; the rate for workers with only a high school diploma is nearly three times as high, at 22.9 percent."

"IBR is available for many federally guaranteed student loans and can be particularly beneficial for low-income families, the unemployed and people with lower-paying, public service-type jobs in education, government or non-profit organizations."

"Last year, we saw a massive 83% corporate tax cut to replace the Michigan Business Tax without a shred of proof offered that it will create jobs. Yes, the MBT was broken, but, no, it should not have been fixed at the expense of the elderly, low-income residents and Michigan's homeless shelters and other nonprofits."

"Luz Onofre has lived in the District since 1963, but she struggles to pay the below-market rent of $900 a month for her Mount Pleasant apartment."

"Other suggestions that have received strong support include excluding students living in college dorms and prison inmates from the population counts when calculating a town's per-capita income and eliminating or altering provisions in the current funding program that allow school districts to keep their level of grant funding even when their per-student share should be decreasing, if their poverty rate or other factors change."

" Preschool for disadvantaged children should not be another casualty of the budget wars."

"The result is that many schools would experience no layoffs, while high-poverty schools would have to shoulder a cycle of turnover and instability that would add to their challenges."

"The biggest issues, advocates say, are Medicaid reimbursement rates in Illinois that are among the lowest in the country for specialized care and administrative hassles that go along with treating low-income patients. Dentists say they can't make ends meet."