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"Poverty among school-age children on Long Island is on the rise, according to new census estimates that focused on school districts. About 90 percent of the region's largest 103 school district areas saw an increase in the percentage of school-age kids living in poverty between 2007 and 2010, the Census Bureau estimated."

"The newest U.S. Census Bureau numbers looking at poverty in school districts in 2010 show an increase in some districts and a decreased or homogenous rate in others since 2009."

"[A recent] report recommends legislation to require basic access in all new housing; increasing the availability of a low-income housing tax credit, particularly for people with disabilities; and increasing services for people with disabilities that allow them to live in the community and not an institution."

"Poverty rates among school-age children have increased in Kane, Kendall, DuPage and all of the collar counties since the start of the recession, according to U.S. Census data released this week."

"A new U.S. Education Department report shows that more than 40 percent of schools across the country that serve mostly students from low-income families are being shortchanged when it comes to state and local funding."

"And one driven by ideology - an 'every man for himself' ideology that fails to understand the very premise of Social Security. It is not an 'investment' option for retirement, as Gingrich wants people to believe. It is a safety net to ensure the elderly have at least some money to ward off the ravages of poverty."

"The report cards are somewhat limiting, only looking at a school's performance in 2010-11. But the trends show that despite their celebrated autonomy, discipline and longer school days, charter schools are struggling to overcome the poverty that so often hampers underperforming neighborhood schools."

"Tulane University and one of the country's most prominent public charter school operators plan to sign a new agreement today with the dual aim of boosting college graduation rates among at-risk students and producing more qualified teachers."

"The centers have become a small but important part of the nation's healthcare safety net, experts say, treating low-income patients who might otherwise not have regular medical care. Now, they add, campus clinics are serving as a model for health officials trying to reduce costs."

"`There's no question that they've brought a huge number of really talented people into the education profession,' said Kati Haycock, president of The Education Trust, which advocates on behalf of low-income and minority children, and a longtime supporter of the corps."

"Unless Congress defuses a legislative time bomb, January 2013 will bring cuts in federal aid to school districts, law enforcement agencies, child care block grants, federal housing programs and a long list of other domestic programs"

"Over the past 30 years, as the gap between wealthy and poor grew ever wider, total philanthropic giving almost tripled, according to annual estimates published by the Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University."