California

"More than two dozen local schools face reduced funding next year as the Los Angeles school district funnels more federal money to campuses with a higher percentage of low-income students."

"A 2011 study conducted by the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger found that 15.2 percent (or 8.8 million) of seniors in the U.S. face the threat of hunger every day."

"Coachella Valley Unified will issue iPads to all 19,000 students -- preschool through high school -- by November. A tablet rollout of this scale would be a hefty undertaking for any school district, but it is especially ambitious in Coachella Valley Unified, which estimates that about 90% of students live in poverty."

"Ninety-nine percent of Van Buren students come from families who live in poverty. The surrounding neighborhood is home to low-income farmworkers and Spanish-speaking migrant families. Across the street sits a homeless shelter that has sent more students to the school since the recession began. These are the telltale signs of a struggling school, but Van Buren bucks convention."

"The small Las Lomas complex is Sacramento County's first HUD-funded permanent supportive housing program for chronically homeless, disabled people who are 55 and older. Located in a neighborhood off Stockton Boulevard, across the street from Next Move's family shelter, it has room for 22 older adults and provides supportive services such as senior nutrition assistance and Paratransit."

"Roughly 300,000 California grandparents 65,000 of them past the age of 65 have primary responsibility for their grandchildren. As the numbers have grown, so has the size of a particularly desperate sliver of grandparents who fall through the cracks in near-poverty, ineligible for assistance and services."