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"Poverty is a factor. Families with less financial resources often live in areas where calorie-dense, cheap foods that meet a tight budget are more readily available than healthier options. "

"It's thriving because of Principal Paul Miller, who had led a Lutheran school on the south side of Chicago and understands the complexities of his students' lives. As he drives his pickup truck down... he points to where various students live, many on streets filled with vacant houses..."

"An employment program operated by Experience Works, an organization that helps put low-income senior citizens to work at nonprofit and government agencies, is facing a 45 percent cut in federal funding that has already resulted in fewer work hours and wages for participants..."

"Since 2005, the school has used a national initiative called Achieving the Dream, which focuses on improving student success at two-year community colleges, and is geared toward minority and low-income students."

" Lubbers said lower increases were recommended for institutions with high numbers of low-income students who are most sensitive to tuition increases."

"For minority and low-income students, the results were especially encouraging. The number of minority students earning qualifying scores increased an astounding 825 percent, the second highest increase in the nation."

"Too many people are ready to write off a few generations of students, especially in poverty plagued cities like Detroit. When we can even entertain a proposal by the emergency financial manager to spike class sizes in Detroit to 60...a lot of us have lost our souls."

"Cincinnati Public, the state's third-largest school district, struggles with a nearly 70 percent poverty rate among its more than 33,000 students. Many families lack insurance or transportation so the school nurses often serve as the primary source of health care..."

"Claudia Nagle, executive director for Diakonia, a homeless shelter in West Ocean City, asked commissioners to consider increasing funding for the organization...'The likelihood may be slim, but we also have the numbers and figures to support the request, [said Nagle].'"

"Instead, Ms. Sherwood, 25, joined up with Teach for America, the program that puts top college graduates into the nation's most poverty-stricken schools, deciding that the best way to make a difference would be, as she put it on Monday, 'to be there, where the rubber meets the road.''"

"Imani opened last fall in the Pine Hills area. Nearly all of its students have been African-American children from low-income families. Former teachers...called the school little more than a baby-sitting service."

"The Republican governor is proposing expanding a Wisconsin school voucher program that currently is available only to low-income students in Milwaukee. He wants to expand the program to all of Milwaukee County and phase out the low-income qualifying ceiling."