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June 4, 2014: CBS News--Nationwide Poll on Social Security's Future Benefits
Topics(s): Aging and Poverty, Workers and Poverty - Access to Benefits, Tax and Budget
April 4, 2014: Harvard University Institute of Politics--Nationwide Poll on Young Americans' Attitudes Towards Politics and Public Service
Topic(s): Workers and Poverty, Education, Racial Equity
April 9, 2014: Democracy Corps--Nationwide Poll on Poverty, Social Welfare Programs, and Poverty
Topic(s): Economic Opportunity: Access to Benefits, Aging and Poverty, Workers and Poverty: Job Quality
May 19, 2014: Associated Press/National Opinion Research Center--Nationwide Poll of Adults Over 40 Years old on Perceptions of Medicaid
Topic(s): Health, Aging and Poverty
March 26, 2014: Kaiser Family Foundation--Nationwide Poll on the Expansion of Medicaid
Topic(s): Health, Aging and Poverty
The Valley News, October 26, 2013: Poverty percentages high in local schools
September 13-17, 2012: Reason Foundation/Arthur N. Rupe Foundation---Nationwide poll on whether poverty can be addressed.
Topic(s): Health, Aging
The Idaho Statesman, April 16, 2012: Idaho students Gear Up for college
"For the past six years, Mavey was part of a federal program called Gear Up, which spent $18 million in federal money on 5,200 students in 19 Idaho school districts where the low-income population exceeds 50 percent. Idaho colleges and foundations contributed several million dollars. Two of the districts, Emmett and Homedale, are in Southwest Idaho."
CT Post, March 23, 2012: Delivering on the promise of our public schools
"News that black students are suspended from public schools at much higher rates than whites shouldn't seem like "news" at all considering some other recent headlines."
The Associated Press, November 13, 2011: Pa. looks for solutions for 'disconnected youth'
"Another teenager shows up on the doorstep of Peggy Harris' homeless shelter in East Liberty. Like a lot of the people who come to Three Rivers Youth, he ran away from home."
August 28- 31, 2011: Resurgent Republic Survey---Nationwide poll on cutting social programs to reduce the budget deficit.
Topic(s): Health, Aging
The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 27, 2011: Pottstown program aims for peak performance in kindergarten
"Today, PEAK has an annual budget of more than $1 million from grants alone, and additional money from the state for Pre-K Counts, the state's prekindergarten program for low-income families."
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