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"'Men typically die sooner, while women tend to live longer and need more care,' she said.Nationally, 70% of all married people who lose their spouses are women, and most widows who live below the poverty line were not poor before their husbands died..."

"Yet research 'is not saying that all classes should be large,' he said. For instance, smaller class sizes might benefit low-income, minority students, but only if the teacher changes instructional methods and procedures"

"Given that the district is mainly low-income and most of those students attend low-achieving schools, Daley and Duncan, now the U.S. secretary of education, have spent much of their efforts on boosting the performance of the worst schools."

"Currently, certain students with low incomes and large loan balances don't have to pay more than 15 percent of their incomes each month on the loans. The new law will lower that to 10 percent."

"A few men have moved into Terraces on Tulane since it started taking tenants last month, but most of the building's first 46 residents are women who lived together in Forest Towers East... It's difficult to tell how many displaced elders have returned to New Orleans since Katrina. "

"With limited funding available, the organization currently offers the Boys Initiative to sixth-graders in seven Hillsborough County middle schools... Rose said the district chose these schools because they are all Title I facilities..."

"Yet she found time to serve on a citizen's advisory panel in Middlesex County, Mass., to assist with programs under President Lyndon Johnson's Anti-Poverty Act."

"The legislation substitutes an expanded direct-lending program by the government for the bank-based program, directing $36 billion over 10 years to Pell grants, for students from low-income families."

"You'd think that a wealthy U.S. city like Los Angeles could boast of better schools than the impoverished urban and rural corners of Latin America from which Jasso and many others departed in search of a better life."

"The legislation would also expand the number of low-income children eligible for free or reduced cost meals, a step Democrats say would help President Obama reach his goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015."

"Funding for elderly housing would be cut in President Barack Obama's proposed budget for next year in a way that could affect as many as 1,000 low-income seniors living in rental units on Long Island, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday."

"The legislation would also expand the number of low-income children eligible for free or reduced cost meals, a step Democrats say would help President Barack Obama reach his goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015."