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"Poverty has many faces. Many of those faces are getting younger. In some respects, such as helping to lift the elderly from poverty, we have made much progress during the 50-year-old War on Poverty. Social Security and Medicare provide important safety nets for senior citizens."

"Bunker Hill Democrat Andy Manar's legislation has been amended to cap the amount of state funds given to the poorest schools to ensure money can be spread around evenly to districts with average amounts of poverty. The measure is aimed at streamlining the state's school funding formula by requiring districts to demonstrate need before receiving money."

"Georgia's new system for grading schools is far more complex than the one it replaces. Educators see it as an improvement in gauging performance at schools with high poverty rates."

"The graduation gaps in Ohio merit an urgent response. The gap between white students and African-Americans in Ohio is 25 percentage points; among whites and Hispanics, it is 18 percentage points. If you are a student from a middle- or high-income family in Ohio, your chances of graduating on time are nearly 9 in 10. If you come from a low-income family or are a student with a disability, your chances are just 68 percent."

"The change, charter school advocates say, goes against the spirit of a four-year-old state law that aims to double charter-school enrollment in the lowest-performing districts, which tend to have the greatest concentration of high-needs students, such as those from low-income households."

"Finding adequate housing has become an all-consuming preoccupation for many older New Yorkers, a group whose explosive growth and changing housing needs pose new challenges for the city. As serious as New York's affordable housing shortage has become, the squeeze has been perhaps harshest on older adults. At a certain age, substandard living conditions become less tolerable, walk-ups are no longer viable, even stabilized rents become too high, and the need for housing with special services grows."

"Starting in the 2014-2015 school year, all students in the Thomaston-Upson School System will receive free breakfast and lunch. That decision came at the Board of Education meeting on April 8 when the BOE voted unanimously to apply for the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). The CEP allows schools that serve a large percentage of low-income children to offer free school meals to all students."

"The Tucson Unified School District will lease unused space to an organization that will provide a preschool for children in poverty on the southwest side."