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"Seniors with low income and limited resources can access an updated comprehensive listing of federal, state and local programs by visiting the National Council on Aging's site..."

"The Mustard Seed Spin began with the simple idea of raising money for homeless kids. But benefits continue to reveal themselves. Now in its sixth year, the charity ride has raised $90,000 for Mustard Seed School, which educates homeless children."

"Faced with the challenge of assembling 146,000 school supply kits for low-income California students, an Oakland nonprofit has enlisted the help of Folsom State Prison inmates."

"Patricia Reid is not in her 70s, an age when many Americans continue to work. She is not even in her 60s. She is just 57. But four years after losing her job she cannot, in her darkest moments, escape a nagging thought: she may never work again."

"And that's sending home educators like Maltzman to Women, Infants and Children offices and the health department to find qualified clients, who can include low-income families and children with disabilities."

"For months, the leadership of Wake County's business and education establishment has watched with alarm as a new school board assembled a student assignment policy that could lead to high-poverty schools in Southeast Raleigh."

"All of us want to help low-income kids. Readers say Rhee is too aggressive and uncompromising. I say other school leaders have been similarly pushy, with good results in raising standards, removing low-performing teachers and fighting the apathy..."

"But those wonderful success stories are the exceptions that prove the rule that the effects of poverty -- especially the multigenerational poverty that we see in so many of Alexandria's schools -- cannot be overcome by schools alone."

"With a few bucks in his pocket, the clothes on his back and a backpack full of books, Enrique Rosado began his fall semester at the University of Tampa with a real-life lesson in survival."

"The number of former workers seeking Social Security disability benefits has spiked with the nation's economic problems, heightening concern that the jobless are expanding the program beyond its intended purpose of aiding the disabled."

"That many children eating school breakfast is rare. Although the number of hungry children in the U.S. is rising, fewer than half of the kids who could be eating a free or low-cost breakfast at school are getting one."

"Ninety-four percent of Lake Forest's 463 students are African-American, and almost 85 percent are low-income, qualifying them for free or reduced-price lunches."