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"[R]esidents are pushing back against the culture of unhealthy eating in low-income neighborhoods, known as food deserts because of the lack of places to buy quality foods"

"Edi Crislip, employment-training coordinator for Lake, Sumter and Hernando counties, said 30 to 50 applications cross her desk weekly. To qualify, applicants must be 55 and have low income"

"Increasing the number of people who can't afford retirement could give us widespread poverty among the elderly -- a social ill that the 1935 Social Security Act aimed to eliminate"

"Legal Services, which provides counseling for low-income clients, reports that seniors with fixed incomes are especially vulnerable to being displaced by foreclosure"

"Wagner, a great-grandmother and retired bus driver living in a low-income apartment, could not afford the drug herself. So she asked her state-run health insurance plan for help"

"AARP says about 40 percent of the state's senior citizens make less than $22,000 a year and roughly half the population would be eligible for the program"

"Social Security and Medicare help to prevent millions of seniors from falling into poverty in retirement. The programs must be fixed, sooner rather than later"

"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act states the windfall cannot be counted as recipients' income, which might have disqualified some low-income seniors and disabled adults from government assistance"

"[A] government forecast that ratchets up pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to stabilize the retirement system that keeps many older Americans out of poverty"

"EPIC provides prescription drugs as discounted prices for older New Yorkers living on low and moderate incomes"

"The rapidly expanding program is intended to keep low-income elderly and disabled Californians out of nursing homes. People who qualify for the program can hire anyone they choose to take care of them, including relatives and friends"

"The payments are the counterpart to the Making Work Pay tax credit, which will give most low- and middle-income workers about $400 over the course of the year via smaller paycheck withholdings"