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"The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati has announced plans to create a staff position, development director, to oversee fundraising for Dayton's urban schools. The director, to be hired by August and paid with donated money, will help establish and perpetuate a fund to give low-income city kids access to a Catholic education."

"The Service Collaborative, an independent non-profit organization, will provide financial coaches to low-income Buffalo families with a goal of increasing family and financial stability. The program has the capacity to serve 10,000 individuals."

"One effort has shown marked success. The Dayton Early College Academy, which opened in 2003 as a public high school, focuses on preparing low-income students for college. It sends 97 percent of its graduates to college, the vast majority to four-year programs."

"The state officially took over the schools in January. Jeffrey Riley, a former Boston school administrator, was named as the receiver and convened a stakeholder group to consider ways to change the direction of the impoverished city's schools."

"The Social Security disability program's trust fund is projected to run out of cash far sooner than the better-known Social Security retirement plan or Medicare. That will trigger a 21 percent cut in benefits to 11 million Americans - disabled people, their spouses, and children - many of whom rely on the program to stay out of poverty."

"When you live in a school district where 64 percent of the students come from low-income homes and budgets have been squeezed to death, every official school communication has the potential to ruin your day."

"The percentage of older people living below the poverty line has climbed steadily since 2005, according to a recent Employee Benefit Research Institute study. For Americans ages 65 to 74, poverty rates increased from 7.9 to 9.4 percent between 2005 and 2009. Among those ages 75 to 84, rates increased from 7.6 percent to 10.7 percent."

"Most, but not all, of those other schools don't receive federal funding to educate higher concentrations of low-income children and thus aren't eligible for extra help. But many of them, mainly in suburban and rural Minnesota, have seen huge increases of students living in poverty."

"Mariana is one of too many young people in Santa Fe for whom education takes a back seat to simple survival. In her case, a low-income background and teen pregnancy make it all but impossible for her to concentrate on English, math and other skills used to rank district schools."

"Poverty is tied to the greatest health disparities. In 2005 to 2010, depression among those 20 to 64 was five times as high for those below the poverty line as those whose incomes were 400 percent or more above it. Toothlessness in adults older than 45 was five times higher in those living below the poverty line, compared with those who made at least 400 percent more than poverty level."

"A national program that aims to remove the barriers that often prevent low-income college students from finishing school is on its way to Baton Rouge Community College, possibly as early as this fall."

"Low-income seniors with excessive debt are having a hard time digging out in an environment in which "job growth is slow and salary increases are minimal," said Craig Copeland, a senior research associate at EBRI, who wrote the study on debt among the elderly."