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"EARN, a local nonprofit that specializes in micro loans and other financial services for low-income workers, has already committed to contributing $100 for every student whose family also saves $100 during the first years of the program."

"When the auction proceeds were given to the center in December, Miller announced the Buchanan Project - an effort to remodel and renovate the Buchanan Transitional Living Center, Iowa Homeless Youth Centers' coed facility for eight youths ages 16 to 21."

"The federal government proscribed consequences for some schools -- those receiving federal anti-poverty money -- that didn't reach goals. Schools like Reed Middle School must allow willing students the option to transfer away..."

"Advocates say these schools play a pivotal role in educating low-income students, but some experts in the field maintain that the graduates of for-profit campuses are often ill-prepared for work, deeply in debt and unable to transfer their units to not-for-profit universities."

"In the economic downturn, the state reduced the fund that covered the costs for at least one AP exam for every Georgia student and paid for low-income students to take as many as they wanted."

"These students, mostly low-income, would stay a median of about 20 weeks and amass as much as $11,000 in student debt, according to the report from the U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee."

"'Children across America, especially low-income children who are most at risk for hunger and for diet-related disease, will benefit greatly from the legislation, which will improve children's access to nutrition programs..."

"And that is especially difficult for historically black colleges and universities, where a larger concentration of students come to campus with pre-existing hurdles -- poverty, a lack of books in the home while growing up and the likelihood that neither Mom nor Dad went to college."

"'I stand to lose everything by coming here to see you today,' she said. 'Yet I am willing to risk all that I have to stop the unethical funneling of tax dollars through low-income individuals to further fill the coffers of mega-rich corporations.'"

"Last week the Children, Youth and Families Department said parents who made more than 100 percent of the federal poverty guideline would have their child care subsidies taken away, due to budget shortfalls. The change affected thousands of families..."

"Kindle is now 19 and starting her second year at the University of New Mexico. Her current grade-point average is 3.5, and she credits the transformation in her life to the Title I Homeless Project at Albuquerque Public Schools."

"In other places, most recently Wake County, N.C., school boards have moved back to neighborhood-school plans, which can mean plentiful resources for students in affluent areas but the opposite for students in low-income places."