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"A good starting point. But we should keep in mind that Social Security has always been meant to supplement citizens' other sources of retirement funds. For low-income workers, Social Security provides about $10,000 annually not enough to get them over the official poverty line."

" But with the recession sending more students back to school, the number of unemployed and low-income students eligible for Pell grants has grown rapidly -- and with it, the gap in financing."

"`When I need a comment from a white, privileged kid like you, I'll let you know,' said Martinez, who has devoted his professional life to improving the lives of low-income students in the city's Jamaica Plain neighborhood."

"It found that students at four-year, for-profit colleges borrowed much more and had markedly lower graduation rates than their nonprofit counterparts... 'They're creating unprecedented amounts of poverty.'"

" President Obama and Congress have increased federal aid for low-income students, but other programs that serve low-income and middle-class students - such as Perkins Loans, Academic Competitiveness Grants, and SMART Grants - are scheduled to expire soon."

"Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, cited the data recently on '60 Minutes' to make the point that "educational differences" are a root cause of income inequality."

"Racial and ethnic disparities in student achievement remain stubbornly wide, despite a decade of efforts to close them, but a new report has found that Latino students are narrowing the academic gaps notably in many schools."

"If states continue their current pace of progress in narrowing achievement gaps between students of different races, ethnic groups, and income levels, it could take decades for lagging student groups in some states to catch up to their better-performing peers, a study of more than 40 states has found."

"The test score analysis shows a "sobering" picture of the nation's improvement rate for some minorities and low-income students, said Jack Jennings, president and CEO of the Center of Education Policy."

"No education issue has received more attention in recent years but with less apparent progress than the achievement gaps for minority and low-income students. The Center on Education Policy released a study Tuesday that looks at trends in all 50 states. Despite a few bright spots, the picture is bleak."

"We must also address poverty. In far too many cases, today's pregnant and parenting teens were themselves children of poor teen parents, creating an intergenerational transfer of poverty."

Center on Education Policy's New Finding