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"The same is true at other schools around Boise where the city's Department of Parks and Recreation sends its two Mobile Rec vans and crews to play games, hand out snacks and lead art activities. The program is reserved for schools where at least half the students receive federally subsidized lunches because they are in low-income families."

"A task force charged with studying the educational needs of homeless youth in Pennsylvania has issued a report that includes establishing a statewide advisory council as one of 13 recommendations on how to best serve homeless students."

"Among the challenges states like Iowa face in implementing the Affordable Care Act: reconciling the new law with existing laws. Obamacare encourages states to expand their Medicaid programs to cover more low-income Americans. Decades-old federal law requires states to try to recover money from the estates of deceased Medicaid enrollees (if there is any money or assets) that the government paid for their health bills."

"The program is a collaboration of Los Angeles public and private partners led by the Youth Policy Institute, which received a $30-million federal grant in 2012 to launch the initiative in the high-poverty neighborhoods of East Hollywood and Pacoima."

"The number of homeless schoolchildren has quadrupled in Nassau County and more than doubled in Suffolk since the recession first hit -- even as federal funding for homeless student programs has decreased."

"Named for a former school board member who died in 2011, the center will provide day care and educational programs to children between the ages of 1 and 5 living in poverty."

"President Barack Obama's proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 includes a big-ticket expense: $75 billion over the next 10 years to help states provide free pre-kindergarten education to millions of low- and moderate-income 4-year-olds."

"Amid the name-calling and blame-mongering, a group of liberal Democratic lawmakers unveiled an analysis breaking down how much additional money could be freed up for local school divisions if Virginia takes the available federal money to expand the Medicaid program. According to the Virginia Progressive Caucus, expansion would result in $285 million in savings over the next two years that could be used for other state services."

"The National Council on Aging (NCOA) today praised the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging for holding a hearing on gains in senior income security since President Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty in the 1960sbut emphasized that the job is far from over."