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"Eliminating funding for AmeriCorps would be devastating for the thousands of students in high-poverty schools in Detroit and throughout the nation who depend on the academic support they receive from City Year."

"Even with that much money, improving these schools will be a tall order. These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard-working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years."

"That's one of the main reasons lawmakers agreed to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to shift $1 billion from First 5 programs to a new fund dedicated to healthcare for low-income children no older than 5."

"Half the students enrolled in the Springfield school district now come from families that straddle the poverty line."

"The measure does not require the alternative schools to offer all students transportation, provide subsidized meals to low-income students, or set racial diversity guidelines as Democrats wanted."

Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, on proposed congressional budget cuts that would hurt those living in poverty

"The latest version would still create a separate charter school commission, but it would now only make recommendations to the State Board of Education on charter licensing and revocations. New charters also would have to provide transportation to low-income students..."

"Medicaid, the federal-state program that covers low-income and severely disabled people, would be converted into a block grant program that gives each state a lump sum to design its own insurance plans. But the poor no longer would have a right under federal law to health care."

"A good book and a federally funded program made for a fun night at the Lakewood Head Start, where students and parents found themselves benefiting from a $2,000 early childhood reading grant from Target."

"The plan would condemn millions to the ranks of the uninsured, raise health costs for seniors and renege on the obligation to keep poor children fed."

"The information presented in the 18-session Getting Ahead class is rooted in the book 'Bridges Out of Poverty,' intended for professionals, social services and churches, among others, dealing with people in poverty, Allee said."

"Numerous studies have proved the most detrimental factor in student achievement is poverty. Beaufort County, a majority poverty school district, has made great progress in improving the quality of education throughout our county."