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"The academy is currently located in a building owned by Liberty Hill Baptist Church at 12th and Schiller streets. The college preparatory school is designed to serve children from low-income families in the community and prepare them to attend Little Rock School District high schools."

"Even with about 5,000 such programs across the country, about one in nine seniors are at risk of hunger because of factors that include poverty and limited mobility, program officials say."

"From 1959 to 2007, the proportion of the 65-plus population with incomes under the government's poverty line ($12,968 for a couple in 2009) dropped from 35.2 percent to 9.7 percent, which was half the poverty rate for children under 18 (18 percent)."

"Supporters of the law say several provisions will help low-wage workers who are uninsured or have bare-bones coverage. The law will expand Medicaid to cover people under 65 with income less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level..."

"Poverty is a factor. Families with less financial resources often live in areas where calorie-dense, cheap foods that meet a tight budget are more readily available than healthier options. "

"It's thriving because of Principal Paul Miller, who had led a Lutheran school on the south side of Chicago and understands the complexities of his students' lives. As he drives his pickup truck down... he points to where various students live, many on streets filled with vacant houses..."

"An employment program operated by Experience Works, an organization that helps put low-income senior citizens to work at nonprofit and government agencies, is facing a 45 percent cut in federal funding that has already resulted in fewer work hours and wages for participants..."

"Since 2005, the school has used a national initiative called Achieving the Dream, which focuses on improving student success at two-year community colleges, and is geared toward minority and low-income students."

" Lubbers said lower increases were recommended for institutions with high numbers of low-income students who are most sensitive to tuition increases."

"For minority and low-income students, the results were especially encouraging. The number of minority students earning qualifying scores increased an astounding 825 percent, the second highest increase in the nation."

"Too many people are ready to write off a few generations of students, especially in poverty plagued cities like Detroit. When we can even entertain a proposal by the emergency financial manager to spike class sizes in Detroit to 60...a lot of us have lost our souls."

"Cincinnati Public, the state's third-largest school district, struggles with a nearly 70 percent poverty rate among its more than 33,000 students. Many families lack insurance or transportation so the school nurses often serve as the primary source of health care..."