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"As of Jan. 1, more than 1 million low-income seniors are newly eligible for more generous prescription drug benefits under the 'extra help' program. Benefiting from a new law are those with life insurance policies and those who regularly get money from relatives..."

"Students can receive vaccines at their private doctors or at the Sedgwick County Health Department's community health clinics, which offer reduced-cost services for families with low incomes."

"The Legislature is now in final deliberations on a new education bill I filed last July that will close, once and for all, the pernicious achievement gaps that damage the lives of low-income, special needs and minority children."

"Experience during the years of entirely voluntary year-round schools shows that such schools... tend to become virtually all-white, which would mean that schools in low-income neighborhoods could veer toward becoming all-minority schools."

"The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities, according to a new report."

"State and federal lawmakers from around the country are pressing a variety of new laws that would make sweeping changes in the way runaways and prostituted children are handled by police officers and social workers."

"This is the sixth year that the program, started by Chris Lerch, owner of Home Instead Senior Care of San Antonio, has organized the distribution of gifts for homebound, isolated and low-income seniors, said Karen Freeman of Home Instead."

"Barriers include being a dropout, pregnant or a parent, homeless or a runaway, a foster child, an offender, disabled or having deficient literary skills."

"Macon being named among the country's poorest cities by Forbes Magazine, the U.S. Census showing about a third of Bibb students living in poverty, and Bibb students' lagging in math and science on state exams give importance to the program's goal."

"Harris Miller... [whose company] represents for-profit colleges, said the increase reflects the poor economy. He also said high default rates don't measure a school's quality and noted that his group's members enroll large numbers of low-income students."

"They now look at factors like geography, family college history, and socioeconomics. They reach out to first-generation students through scholarships and have closer ties with schools in low-income, urban areas."

"While 76 percent of youths in custody are from the New York City area, nearly all the prisons are upstate, and the youths' relatives, many of them poor, cannot afford frequent visits, cutting them off from support networks."