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"Jackson also showed a video produced by Horizons National, an educational summer enrichment program that serves low-income, public school students by partnering with educational entities.Its leaders believe that summer learning loss is perpetuating the poverty problem because children from middle- and upper-class households have greater opportunities for continued learning during the summer months."

"The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, is cutting hospitals' reimbursements from Medicare the federal program that provides health care to the elderly by $155 billion. When the law was passed, hospital officials agreed to the cut believing that patients covered by the new law who previously had been uninsured would more than make up the difference.But hospital officials are growing increasingly worried as it becomes apparent the law will not expand health care to as many people as they had hoped."

"For low-income kids, public institutions that feed their intellectual growth --- schools, after-school programs, community centers --- are not replaced during the summer months by private opportunities, marine biology camp at Tybee Island or fly fishing with dad in Wyoming, leading to a loss of skills."

"Eight Maine hospitals have sued U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over the government's handling of millions of dollars in payments for some low-income and elderly patients."

"Idaho Core Standards, tougher requirements for what students should learn, could cause a drop in student proficiency on tests and widen the gap between struggling and successful learners."

"With dozens of changes in just the past three years, the formula behind Florida's A-to-F school grading system has been criticized as a confusing mess. But there's been at least one constant in Miami-Dade and Broward results: The wealthiest schools never get Fs, and schools with high populations of poor students face an uphill battle to even get a C."

"For many American college students, the nation's higher education system increasingly is defined by two distinct paths. The first, taken primarily by white students, leads to the top U.S. institutions, while the other taken mostly by blacks and Hispanic students leads to community colleges and less prestigious open-access schools, according to a major study of college enrollment patterns over the past 20 years."

"The Rapides Parish School District and public school districts throughout Louisiana have programs designed to help, and they do so every year. We are glad they are there, and we wish there were more help available. The need is great. In Rapides Parish alone, where the average income is higher than in many other rural parishes, more than 400 schoolchildren were homeless during the 2012-13 academic year."

"With affirmative action under attack and economic mobility feared to be stagnating, top colleges profess a growing commitment to recruiting poor students. But a comparison of low-income enrollment shows wide disparities among the most competitive private colleges."

"A new report released Monday by the U.S. Census shows that two Florida cities with large concentrations of college students experience big declines in poverty rates when college students aren't counted."

"Up to 2,000 Ohio kindergartners from low-income families will be able to use state vouchers for private-school tuition this fall, thanks to a provision in the state budget approved last month."

"The small Las Lomas complex is Sacramento County's first HUD-funded permanent supportive housing program for chronically homeless, disabled people who are 55 and older. Located in a neighborhood off Stockton Boulevard, across the street from Next Move's family shelter, it has room for 22 older adults and provides supportive services such as senior nutrition assistance and Paratransit."