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"Washington-based EBRI continues to be at the forefront of sounding the alarm that we ought to be more aggressive in preventing people from falling into poverty in their senior years."

"Passing rates for black, Hispanic and low-income students largely went up this past school year but still continued to lag those of white students. For instance, 53.6 percent of low-income students passed the end-of-grade reading exam, up from 49.8 percent the prior year."

"But I also study poverty. And that means one pays attention to race as well. Latinos (23.2 percent) and African- Americans (24.6 percent) are about three times as likely as whites (8.6 percent) to live in poverty."

"Heidrick & Struggles is looking for a replacement for Del Burns, who resigned as superintendent after a new majority on the nine-member panel started to move away from a policy of balancing the percentage of students from low-income families from school to school."

"At last count, 289 homeless students attend Rock Hill schools. Unemployment has left many struggling in neighboring Chester County, where the school district serves 23 homeless students. 'There are probably scores of others we have not identified...'"

"Payments would never exceed 15 percent of any income above about $16,000 a year (150 percent of the poverty level). Those who earn less than $16,000 don't have to make any monthly payments."

"Low-income households often face additional challenges in exposing their children to books and reading. Project PLACE focuses on literacy training for the child and his/her parents. Home visitor/teachers devote a part of every home visit to literacy training."

"'Everybody tells me I'm crazy,' said Tony Lowden, executive director of Campus Clubs, which is using stimulus money to host an 11-week academic summer camp for low-income students in Macon. 'I'm crazy enough to want to help save kids' lives.'"

"According to Robert Carlisle, supervisor of the Title 1 program for Wicomico schools, that percentage determines funding for a variety of other efforts, including Title 1 -- a program that distributes federal funding to schools with a high percentage of... low-income [students]."

"Summer reading helps students still learning English retain language skills. Nearly 65 percent of students at Lawrenceville's Kanoheda Elementary, a campus of 1,000 with a poverty rate of 90 percent, live in homes where English is a second language."

"But serious questions have been raised about some of the major players in this rapidly growing industry. Critics charge that many for-profit colleges employ overly aggressive recruiting tactics targeting low-income students."

"Plaintiff attorneys say they want the court to require the Legislature and the governor to address unequal and inadequate conditions within the schools, disparate conditions that more often affect low-income and minority students."