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"Gallatin's Shalom Zone, a community resource center that encompasses 11 social agencies, works with lower-income families across Sumner County with a goal of raising the graduation rate and, consequently, residents' income levels."

"A new Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, or VITA, and Tax Counseling for the Elderly site opens Saturday in Larimer County providing free tax assistance to low-income and elderly residents."

"The new guidelines are based on 2009 recommendations by the Institute of Medicine... The subsidized meals that would fall under the guidelines proposed this week are served as free and low-cost meals to low-income children."

"The new school board has won applause from parents who blame the old policy - which sought to avoid high-poverty, racially isolated schools - for an array of problems in the district and who say that promoting diversity is no longer a proper or necessary goal for public schools."

"Pennsylvania's low-cost, basic health insurance program for more than 40,000 low-income adults may be at an end."

"$9.3 million to eliminate 328 teachers' assistants in first and second grades. $7.9 million to scale back the policy of providing low-income students with extra teachers, eliminating 134 positions."

"But Mr. Waronker decided to try out the model in one of the nation's toughest learning environments, a high poverty elementary school in which 20 percent of the children have been found to have emotional, physical or learning disabilities..."

"We have to get more efficient with state dollars. If you want to be efficient with how you spend money on preschool, it needs to be targeted to the kids that are going to get the most benefit, which is going to be the kids that are in poverty."

"Advocates for low-income students say that's easier said than done. 'It is very, very difficult to determine which one is accredited even when one is looking for it,' says Pauline Abernathy, vice president at the Institute for College Access and Success."

"The incoming GOP governor and legislative leaders have tagged it for the chopping block. In its place, House Republicans suggest vouchers should pay for low-income children to attend private preschools."

"Statistics show that there are more Americans below the poverty line now than when President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty. We must use every arrow in our collective quiver to reverse this devastating trend."

"'A big part of the program is that it is providing empowerment and work experience for formerly homeless and disabled adults,' said Jennifer Hall, former kitchen programs manager for Porchlight Products, who left last month to take a job as bakery manager at Daisy Cafe..."