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"Older Americans heard the words 'cuts' and 'Medicare' in the same sentence and were more likely to believe healthcare reform would hurt -- not help -- them... [T]he reality [is] that the newly passed legislation lays the groundwork for greatly improving... healthcare services for seniors..."

"Ohio has a mixed record in encouraging quality charter schools and keeping track of or closing poorly performing ones. Ohio's achievement progress is mixed, with little evidence of closing achievement gaps between minority and low-income students and their peers."

"The raises come from $1 billion Congress set aside in the stimulus program last year to improve and expand Head Start, a federal program aimed at getting children from low-income families ready for school."

"Under the new law, money previously used to pay private lenders will be used in part to increase the Pell Grant program for students from low-income families by about $36 billion."

"[Two senators] are proposing a five-year pilot program, roughly modeled on a similar program in Pennsylvania, under which low-income students in 'chronically failing' public schools would be able to apply for scholarships to attend private schools..."

"'Men typically die sooner, while women tend to live longer and need more care,' she said.Nationally, 70% of all married people who lose their spouses are women, and most widows who live below the poverty line were not poor before their husbands died..."

"Yet research 'is not saying that all classes should be large,' he said. For instance, smaller class sizes might benefit low-income, minority students, but only if the teacher changes instructional methods and procedures"

"Given that the district is mainly low-income and most of those students attend low-achieving schools, Daley and Duncan, now the U.S. secretary of education, have spent much of their efforts on boosting the performance of the worst schools."

"Currently, certain students with low incomes and large loan balances don't have to pay more than 15 percent of their incomes each month on the loans. The new law will lower that to 10 percent."

"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."