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Uber Expands Transportation Options for Low-Income New Yorkers
Parents' Non-Standard Work Schedules Make Adequate Childrearing Difficult
The High Cost of Truancy
Enrollment Management and the Low-Income Student
The Wage Subsidy: A Better Way to Help the Poor
AEI Public Opinion Study: Economic Insecurity
Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy
Out of Sync: How Unemployment Insurance Rules Fail Workers with Volatile Job Schedules
Fort Morgan Times, July 29, 2015: Free meals for low-income students
"This year students from low-income families in the Weldon Valley school district will be eligible for free or reduced-price meals during classes.
Enid News, July 28, 2015: Organizations gather to help low-income seniors
"Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and Retired Senior and Volunteer Program of Enid and North Central Oklahoma have teamed to help low-income seniors in the area."
The News Tribune, July 28, 2015: (Editorial) A pathway to higher ed for low-income students
"It isn't enough that financial aid for college is available to low-income students. They have to know it's available. A new study by the nonprofit Urban Institute found that many low-income families aren't aware of what aid is available, don't know how to navigate the system and often overestimate how much college costs. But when they are made aware of what aid is available, a world of possibilities can open. And that can provide a powerful incentive for students from poor families to apply themselves to their studies."
Austin American-Statesman, July 27, 2015: Demographers baffled as percent of region's low-income students shrinks
"The percentage of students from low-income families in Austin and many of its surrounding school districts has been shrinking since 2011 and took a steeper dive last school year, a change that the experts tracking rapid growth in Central Texas can't quite explain."