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"So he has a question to answer, a choice that most 18-year-olds have no idea how to make and that a vast majority of parents are ill-equipped to consider as well: just how much sacrifice should teenagers (and often their parents) make to attend a high-quality liberal arts college, when a perfectly good community college is just up the road?"

"Pino acknowledges that his school has only one child with an allergy issue and serves a student body that is 98 percent low income. 'But even in the more affluent schools, parents are in a hurry to get to work and there isn't always time to make breakfast,' he said."

""Our goal is that Faison Primary becomes our first 90-90-90 school -- 90 percent minority, 90 percent poverty and 90 percent [proficient or advanced] achievement," Ms. French said [district chief of school performance]."

"That formula gives additional money for teaching students who come from families below the poverty line, who are learning English, or who have physical or learning disabilities."

"But, says Norma Johnson, program specialist for breakfast in the classroom in the San Diego schools, with economic instability and the twin problems of obesity and hunger as well as a population of homeless children, 'we have a lot of obligation.'"

"'Currently, the waiting list for (uninsured or homeless) patients needing physical therapy stands at 53 people,' she said. 'With the beginning of Ace CARE, many more of these individuals will get the help that they need.'"

"The former Abbotts, largely urban and low-income, still get more than 50 percent of the state's aid. The Supreme Court ruled the formula, if fully funded, could provide a "thorough and efficient education.""

"The latest events in Colorado say otherwise. A voucher program there seems more likely to benefit middle-class children and religious schools than low-income public school students, and to worsen inequities in education."

"The Commodities Supplemental Food Program is a federal nutrition program that provides a monthly 40-pound box of healthy food to low-income seniors in 37 states, more than 34,500 in Pennsylvania. The food for this program is federal commodities food..."

"Woodward told officials attending the meeting that it was a matter of making sure low-income students without easy access to transportation could still reach library service near their homes."

"For the more than 1,200 students of poverty who attend the Asheville City Schools, we are working as a community to maintain a pathway out of poverty, and for all students, our local public schools offer a high-quality education."

"Social Security has helped reduce the poverty rate for older Americans to just 9 percent in 2010, compared to an estimated 44 percent who would be below poverty without it, according to the Congressional Research Bureau."