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"Because 76 percent of the children in care at Day Nursery are low-income, Pearson said many of the families using the facility receive subsidized care through a reimbursement program available at Texas Workforce Solutions."

"Historically, our school boards have tried to make all schools strong by limiting the percentage of low-income children in any one school (low income highly correlates with low academic performance and higher teacher burnout). This has been done primarily through the magnet program, which allows affluent suburban children to be voluntarily bused into high-poverty areas."

"The original threads of community paramedicine trace back to places like Nova Scotia, which began experimenting with the idea around 2000 when a doctor who had served two remote islands off the Canadian coast retired; paramedics were recruited to fill the gap. Around the mid-2000s, San Francisco, and later San Diego and Washington, D.C., among others, began sending paramedics into homeless populations, aiming to reduce 911 calls."

"Her daughter, 11, was growing up in the high-poverty neighborhood without her. The choice was obvious: Go back to be a better mother and get a job. Temptation has threatened to envelop Blevins."

"'There is money in California. There is an opportunity to save this university,' said Island, who said higher tuition would especially harm UC's growing population of minority and low-income students. In other action Thursday, the regents approved hefty incentive awards and pay raises for eight UC financial and medical center executives."

"In 2010, 78 percent of the Saginaw School District's 8,041 students received free or reduced-price lunches, based on household income. But some students skipped meals, not wanting to be known as a kid from a low-income family, said Board of Education member Norman C. Braddock."

"Many openings will be in math and science. According to a 2007 study, public schools will need more than 280,000 new math and science teachers by 2015, especially those in low-income school districts. The report was issued by the Business-Higher Education Forum, a national group of senior business and higher education executives."

"The Oneida Tribe of Indians will look to improve infrastructure for housing for the elderly and low-income tribal members after receiving a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development."

"When so many families are struggling financially, it is needed more than ever. Head Start doesn't just provide early education. It is much more comprehensive. Created during the Lyndon Johnson administration as an anti-poverty program, Head Start connects children with services including medical and dental care."

"Many low-income black parents, especially uneducated single mothers, are unprepared to effectively teach their children. To be effective, parents must spend what experts call "quality time" with their children."

"The government does not track filers' demographic data. But Linfield said the groups that have historically been most affected are low-income consumers without college degrees. They still account for the largest share of bankruptcy petitioners: Linfield's research found about 38 percent of debtors make less than $20,000 and about a third have only a high school diploma."

"Although for-profit colleges, which typically serve low-income students, enroll only about 10 percent of the nation's undergraduates, Mr. Kvaal said, their students made up 150,000, or almost half, of the defaults"