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"[T]he estimate of children in poverty is afected by the undercount of children in the Decennial Census."
"The President’s budget achieves such growth in quite a few program areas affecting people in need, but there are still cuts in services needed by vulnerable people, including children at risk of abuse or neglect and children in the juvenile justice system"
[R]anked on key factors that affect health such as...unemployment rates and number of children living in poverty
"What's On Your Plate?, " a documentary about kids and food politics produced and directed by George Gund Foundation Trustee Catherine Gund, will be shown at the Cleveland International Film Festival March 27 and 28
"Built on years of experience in the field, the CWF approach acknowledges the problems faced by low-income families who must navigate a fragmented system to obtain critically needed work-supporting services and benefits."
"Public flagships and other research institutions spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to aid wealthy students who don’t need it, while providing inadequate support to low-income and minority students who do"
"The grants, which include $7.28 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $3.8 million from the Foundation to Promote Open Society...will enable the network to expand its program into fifteen new community colleges"
"Pursuit of the Dream tells the stories of low-income families struggling to establish good credit or to overcome the debt and bad financial decisions that left them with low scores. "
"There are rich resources – decades of research and scholarly articles – documenting health disparities in America and the importance of social determinants of health. But how can we make sure that these findings are well-understood by policy makers?"
"The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, is a national initiative designed to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) as a decision-making tool for policymakers"
"Creating Opportunity for Low-Income Women in the Green Economy"
"[I]t was becoming obvious that the economic challenges confronting low-income Southerners and communities were a by-product of the region’s customary approach to economic and workforce development – an approach which revolves around selling the region on the basis of low labor and business costs and pays little attention to questions of economic equity"
"When households lose their incomes, a predictable range of vulnerabilities to economic, housing, family and health emergencies are created"
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Programs "dramatically boost the college completion rates of low-income students and students of color"
"[W]hile college is a primary driver of upward economic mobility, many low-income students miss out on college because they may be deterred by costs"
"[A] project that will help local nonprofits start social-purpose ventures—called Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs)—aimed at meeting the employment needs of Louisiana residents and employers"
"Dramatic differences in health among racial or ethnic groups in the United States have been observed repeatedly across a wide range of important indicators of health from the beginning of life through old age"
"Without urgent action to take proven steps that can make a big difference in health, America’s children could have sicker, shorter lives than their parents"
"[I]nvestments...support the foundation’s goal to help ensure that 80 percent of high school students graduate college-ready, with a focus on low-income and minority students"
"A prominent philanthropy watchdog has riled some foundations by releasing a report suggesting they should devote half their grants to minorities, the poor and other disadvantaged groups"
"Hudson-Webber agreed to pay off its liabilities and settle the personnel issues -- but only by merging it into Matrix Human Services, which offers an array of social services to low-income families"
"[D]espite the current economic crisis, a strong and uniquely American undercurrent of optimism shines through"
"Despite losing 30 percent of what a year ago was a $50 million endowment, Eos will spend an additional $15 million over the next five years to fight poverty in Boston"
"[I]dentifies some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators"
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