Maryland

"Now, a major research project will bring handymen, occupational therapists and nurses into the homes of 800 low-income seniors in Baltimore to test if some inexpensive fix-ups and strategies for daily living can keep them independent longer, and save millions in taxpayer dollars spent on nursing home care."

"McDaniel showed up on a New America best' list, with 28 percent of its full-time students qualified for Pell Grants (that is, low-income) and their families paying an average net price of $9,778 per year. Tuition and room and board at McDaniel for the 2010-2011 academic year, the one examined in the report, was $40,340. McDaniel has been working at this earnestly since 2006. It reports minority enrollment more than doubling from 12 percent in 2007 to 29 percent in 2012 and nearly 40 percent of freshmen this year were first-generation collegians."

"In March, a grand survey of thousands of teenagers found that most low-income, high-achieving students don't even bother to apply to top colleges and universities. The boys and girls in the study came from families making less than $41,000 a year, had A-minus or above grade averages through high school and scored in the top 10 percent on college entrance exams."

"Comcast launched the Digital Connectors Program in 2009 with the goal of helping young adults, particularly from low-income families, learn about computers and software, and pass the knowledge on to others in their communities. Each high school student in the program must agree to donate 57 hours of volunteer time by leading classes, tutoring students and otherwise sharing their knowledge. The classes are taught at the computer center, which opened in June 2010 with a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce."

"Nationally, research has shown ties between poverty and special education, according to an analysis titled Poverty and Special Ed' by LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Education. The analysis outlined a few factors the National Research Council found as to a growing number of poor children receiving special education services."

"Harrison is a traditional American folk musician, storyteller and dance caller, and for the past year he has visited the Tubman Center courtesy of the Howard County Arts Council's Head Start in Art program, which provides hands-on experiences in the arts for the county's low-income families. The program began in 2000 in conjunction with the Ellicott City Head Start Center and expanded to the Tubman Center last year."