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"The aftermath is being measured today in taffeta and test scores. Student poverty has risen in Duluth, graduation rates have softened and the PTA's largest fundraiser, the Miss Duluth pageant, barely broke even this year."

"As Congress debates the budget, it must remember that the Great Recession wreaked havoc on the American middle class. But it must also focus on the plight of those who were poor even before the recession and rendered nearly invisible by the economic crisis."

"More than 40 million work hours are provided to public and nonprofit agencies each year through the Department of Labor's Senior Community Service Employment Program, or SCSEP. Participants must be 55 or older, be unemployed and have poor employment prospects."

"California is one of six states that does not regulate private in-home caregivers. While the state now screens workers providing care for the mostly low-income, blind, disabled and elderly Californians enrolled in in the In-Home Supportive Services program..."

"Since February 2009, SNAP implemented Simplified Reporting requiring households to report only when the income exceeds 130 percent of the federal poverty level and address change, according to Public Health."

"Though Brizard touts improvements in graduation rates and test scores among his accomplishments in his 31/2 years, opinion is sharply divided on whether he has made a significant difference in the performance of the district's largely low-income... students."

"Consider just a few factors, solely about students: lack of motivation, distorted educational expectations, impoverished educational background, psychological problems, destructive educational attitudes, varying speeds at which students learn, varying aptitude..."

"Rep. Tishaura Jones, who proposed the legislation, said expanding charter schools is important because poor schools have caused even low-income families to move away from the center of the state's urban areas."

"If they are indeed a universal fix for addressing the education problems of parents whose choices are severely restricted because of circumstances related to poverty, one would think that they might also provide solutions in other communities that are more privileged."

"A nonprofit organization that seeks to help low-income students at Shawnee Mission North High School is planning a fundraiser at the school even though the group says it doesn't feel welcome there."

"'Ridgewood was one of the best,' said Michael Harlow, public policy consultant with Ohio Education Matters. 'When you look at income and poverty areas in this district, it's tough to be a champion.'"

"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is battling to give corporations tax credits in exchange for their financial support for low-income students' private school tuition. Congress just passed a budget deal that significantly increases the number of vouchers available to schoolchildren..."