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"Jewish senior citizens need affordable assisted-living facilities, access to transportation and improved hospital chaplaincy services..Fifty percent of low-income Jews are over 75 and live alone... [Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County study]."

"The in-home program provides critical care to 430,000 low-income Californians in their homes so they are not forced to move into institutions or onto the streets."

"Federal data on meth lab seizures suggest that there are tens of thousands of contaminated residences in the United States. The victims include low-income elderly people whose homes are surreptitiously used by relatives or in-laws to make meth..."

"More than 10 bloggers from Tallahassee.com gathered at Lake Ella on Saturday to collect donations for an apartment complex for homeless veterans on Lake Bradford Road."

"The Atlantic Development Group [worked] with the Highbridge Community Development Corporation on the project. Highbridge, a nonprofit corporation with a mission to create homes for families and people with special needs..."

"Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday signed into law a bill to limit how much utilities can charge low-income customers and to create a program to let them pay bills over time and avoid disconnection."

"Applicants who are eligible include those who have exhausted unemployment insurance...Other applicants who will be considered include individuals with a substantial disability, homeless individuals, low-annualized family income..."

"Over two years, Tierney said, the group will evaluate the current transportation inventory and find ways to fill in the gaps, particularly when it comes to serving seniors, people with disabilities and low-income households."

"Although people often assume that insufficient savings are a result of low incomes, Hobson said her research indicates the problems come from behaviors such as waiting too long to start investing, borrowing too much from 401(k) plans and avoiding stocks."

"Calling themselves World Changers, about 250 teenagers from across the United States... [will] spend the next week painting, roofing, building wheelchair ramps and replacing siding at 28 homes for low-income, elderly and disabled residents..."

"'It seems pretty clear from the research that all too often these atypicals are being used to calm people down,' said Thomas Snedden, director of Pennsylvania's prescription-drug programs, known as PACE, for low-income residents ages 65 and older."

"The number of female service members who have become homeless after leaving the military has jumped dramatically in recent years, according to new government estimates, presenting the Veterans Administration with a challenge..."