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"About 78 percent of preK students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, an indicator of poverty, according to the report. Around 34 percent came from homes earning less than $10,000 per year."

"A controversial proposal to allow school vouchers in Pennsylvania cleared a key legislative committee Tuesday. The Senate Education Committee voted in favor of a bill that would phase in a voucher program for low-income students over three years."

"Because of Social Security, the poverty figure for seniors today is less than 10 percent. Social Security also provides dignified support for millions of widows, widowers, orphans and people with disabilities."

"Women are gaining ground educationally and economically, but men still make more money on average and women are more likely to live in poverty, according to a White House report expected to be released Tuesday."

"EMU is launching Keys to Degrees as a way to reach out to what officials say is an underserved population -- single parents -- who often feel disengaged from college. They are also less likely to receive a college degree, and more likely to live in poverty."

"Simpson and Bowles proposed raising the payroll tax on high-income earners, raising the Social Security retirement age to 69 (very gradually, over the next 65 years), adjusting the formula for cost-of-living increases in benefits and increasing benefits for low-income retirees."

"Also, the complaint alleges, the school closings affect a disproportionate number of students in low-income neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, compared with neighborhoods serving higher percentages of white students..."

"Mayor Bloomberg has detailed, school by school, what parents can expect from last in, first out layoffs. The numbers reveal grossly unequal treatment - with low-income, mostly black and Hispanic schools bearing the brunt."

"Former scholars now include bankers, doctors, scientists, a film student raised in a Bronx homeless shelter, an analyst in the money laundering unit of the Manhattan district attorney's office and a licensed aircraft mechanic whose mother worked as a cashier in the food court..."

"It sought diversity, 'broadly defined to include a wide variety of factors, such as race, ethnicity, gender, English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), geography, poverty, prior school and cultural experiences, and other unique skills and experiences.'''

"At least five other high schools in Cook County, as well as a handful of others across the state, offer similar programs, according to Illinois Action for Children, a nonprofit that works with low-income families, including teen parents."

"Marci Young, director of Pre-K Now, a campaign of the Pew Center on the States, said multiple studies have shown that full-time programs are better than half-day programs, especially for low-income and other at-risk children."