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"Convening the meeting was Turnaround for Children, a nonprofit organization that the young-but-faltering school in an impoverished neighborhood near the Bronx Zoo had brought in this year to try to change things."

"The proposed $2.6 million project includes 17 apartments -- some 440 square feet and others 690 square feet -- for low-income seniors (62 and older) and more than 4,000 square feet in retail space on the first floor."

"According to the National Research Council, statistics show that the educational careers of 25 to 40 percent of American children are imperiled because they don't read well enough, quickly enough or easily enough."

"The Pew Research Center report published Monday looked at the economic well-being of older adults and younger adults over several decades through a wide variety of economic lenses wealth, income, homeownership, home equity, employment and poverty."

"Minority lawmakers say House and Senate plans to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law fail to protect minority children, those with disabilities and children learning English."

"Twenty years of reform efforts and programs targeting low-income families in Chicago Public Schools has only widened the performance gap between white and African-American students, a troubling trend at odds with what has occurred nationally."

"Ms. Layne and N-Dia, 9, live at the Regent Family Residence for the Homeless, a shelter on West 104th Street and Broadway. They were transferred last summer from their original family shelter in Brownsville, Brooklyn, two blocks from N-Dia's school."

"The data suggest Social Security benefits aren't quite as 'redistributive' as some might expect from a program intended to keep people out of poverty in old age, said Alan Gustman, one of three authors of the study, done under a grant from the Social Security Administration through the Michigan Retirement Research Center."

"Such attrition is a major criticism of the Teach for America program by those who contend the rookie educators, often called corps members, don't remain in the profession long enough to make a difference. TFA's attrition rate in DISD exceeds the national rate of teachers in high-poverty schools who leave after two years."

"The Elks Foundation donated another $10,000 grant, making it $20,000 for this year.Started just last January to provide meals over the weekend for homeless children through a backpack program, the Bradenton 'Elks Feeding Empty Little Tummies,' is making headway, said project manager Jeff Mitchell."

"Many villages have subsidized memberships for those who can't afford the full price of a membership. Beacon Hill, for example, charges $640 for an individual membership and $925 for a household, but low-income members pay $110 for an individual or $160 for a household."

"A new census measure released recently shows the poverty rate to be higher than previously known -- about 15.9 percent for Americans 65 or older, compared to the official 9 percent rate reported in September."