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"'If you show a girl that they can do anything they want to be able to do, you can transform their lives and break that generational cycle of poverty,' said Janice Urbanik, the director of industry partnerships for the Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network."

"There are not major problems with the education system in New Jersey as portrayed by conservative media (the Asbury Park Press, New Jersey 101.5 FM radio), the governor and Republicans. The real problem is poverty, or more correctly, high concentrations of poverty."

"Ferguson was designated a Breakthrough High School in 2004 -- one of just 12 recognized by the National Association of Secondary School Principals for outstanding achievement among schools with high poverty rates."

"At Public School 309 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, students wear necklaces with colorful pendants, each marking a month in which they did not miss a day of school. At P.S. 75 in the South Bronx, a row of young adults welcomes students each morning as they walk in the door."

"For example, Republicans agreed to reverse cuts to child care services for low-income working Iowa families and to ensure that vulnerable Iowans get the care they need in their homes and avoid costly institutional care."

"'I've found over 500 schools in low-income neighborhoods where scores are above the national average,' he said. The lecture was a tutorial on the need to bridge cultural gaps between teachers and their students..."

"The 'summer slide,' as it's known in educational circles, disproportionately affects low-income kids, whose parents often don't have the means to send them to summer camps or the time to organize other stimulating activities."

"It would take 108 classes to make Pre-K available to all students, and cost about $8.1 million in the first year for the additional 64 classes. 'It's leveling the playing field for children of poverty,' Federal Programs Director Phyllis Bartlett said while discussing Pre-K in another context."

"More than half of Metco students, who board buses and trains every morning as early as 6 a.m., are from low-income families. Three-fourths are African-American or Latino."

"To help cope with enrollment increases... the equivalent of 27.8 full-time teachers will be shuffled in from elsewhere in the system. Also cut was spending for a county-funded poverty program at schools where increased federal poverty funds were available this year."

"What started with one act of kindness has blossomed into a faith-based ministry where hundreds of homeless congregate during the day in downtown Newport News."

"Smalls was not alone at Carolina Community Actions, which this week started to help the poor and elderly through its low-income cooling assistance program paid for with federal Health and Human Services dollars."