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"A few men have moved into Terraces on Tulane since it started taking tenants last month, but most of the building's first 46 residents are women who lived together in Forest Towers East... It's difficult to tell how many displaced elders have returned to New Orleans since Katrina. "

"With limited funding available, the organization currently offers the Boys Initiative to sixth-graders in seven Hillsborough County middle schools... Rose said the district chose these schools because they are all Title I facilities..."

"Yet she found time to serve on a citizen's advisory panel in Middlesex County, Mass., to assist with programs under President Lyndon Johnson's Anti-Poverty Act."

"The legislation substitutes an expanded direct-lending program by the government for the bank-based program, directing $36 billion over 10 years to Pell grants, for students from low-income families."

"You'd think that a wealthy U.S. city like Los Angeles could boast of better schools than the impoverished urban and rural corners of Latin America from which Jasso and many others departed in search of a better life."

"The legislation would also expand the number of low-income children eligible for free or reduced cost meals, a step Democrats say would help President Obama reach his goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015."

"Funding for elderly housing would be cut in President Barack Obama's proposed budget for next year in a way that could affect as many as 1,000 low-income seniors living in rental units on Long Island, Sen. Charles Schumer warned yesterday."

"The legislation would also expand the number of low-income children eligible for free or reduced cost meals, a step Democrats say would help President Barack Obama reach his goal of ending childhood hunger by 2015."

"As a single mother of three, Sylvia Fennell works two jobs to make ends meet....So when Fennell, 27, who lives in Chicago's Bronzeville community, first learned of a plan that would allow school districts to scale back the school week to four days, she panicked."

"'The government needs to take a look at what poverty means,' he said. 'It's so disheartening. Yes, we need cuts and revisions; I understand the state is in dire straits, but hitting the poor over the head again?'"

"Pennsylvania's eighth-grade average score was 268 in 2007, when the test was last given, and 265 in 2002. The eighth-grade groups in Pennsylvania that showed a gain since 2007 were female students and those who were not low income."

"...[P]rivate banks would no longer get fees from the government for acting as middlemen in loans to low- and middle-income college students. With those savings, the government would increase Pell Grants to needy students..."