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"In a school where 86 percent of the students qualify for subsidized lunch, a common poverty indicator, education too often takes a back seat for kids who wonder where they will sleep that night, when they will get their next hot meal or whether the power will be on when they get home."

"Title I is a federally funded program that directs money to schools with a high percentage of students from low-income families. It provides extra help such as tutoring. The Hillsborough school district has a poverty level of about 57 percent, up from 50 percent in 2005..."

"A federal financial-aid program for low- income college students doles out millions of dollars every year to Valley students who don't keep up their grades."

"I would like to express my support for the proposed senior housing project that St. John Vianney Church is requesting. The project proposes a 38- to 40-unit apartment building for low-income seniors."

"I met the two Martin Luther King Middle School students while touring a program at their school last week. MLK middle is tucked off busy North Tryon in the Hidden Valley neighborhood, and poverty is no stranger. More than half the students come from low-income homes."

"State senators on Thursday passed a Republican-backed school voucher program for low-income students in the state's four largest counties, including Hamilton."

"Meehan said Rebecca Walsh, a sophomore psychology major from Methuen who worked with homeless families over her spring break rather than sit on the couch, is the type of student focused on serving the community that UMass Lowell will continue to produce..."

"The hope, Sargent said, is that agencies will develop programs that match the United Way's goals and apply for that funding. Also, the United Way provided some money for a required local match to a federal stimulus grant that helps low-income parents put their kids in daycare."

"'Two things that help one move out of poverty are education and relationships.' Cristo Rey Kansas City, a Catholic college prep school, has the education part well covered."

"The aftermath is being measured today in taffeta and test scores. Student poverty has risen in Duluth, graduation rates have softened and the PTA's largest fundraiser, the Miss Duluth pageant, barely broke even this year."

"As Congress debates the budget, it must remember that the Great Recession wreaked havoc on the American middle class. But it must also focus on the plight of those who were poor even before the recession and rendered nearly invisible by the economic crisis."

"More than 40 million work hours are provided to public and nonprofit agencies each year through the Department of Labor's Senior Community Service Employment Program, or SCSEP. Participants must be 55 or older, be unemployed and have poor employment prospects."