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"Budget cuts threatened the program, which hires low-income seniors to tutor and mentor at-risk children in the early elementary grades. The program has been in Pinellas schools for 29 years and traces its origins to President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society initiative."

"Tkazyik said the partnership will benefit passengers, many of them low-income residents and senior citizens 'who depend on public transportation each and every day.' The first business to purchase advertisement space on a city bus is Senior Whole Health..."

"Ohio has stepped up efforts to help low-income elderly and disabled people like Moore, who after six months in a nursing home are ready to move out but find it difficult. Some have lost their homes and have nowhere to go. Others no longer have the support of family and friends."

"Federal food stamp payments to low-income families was $26.7 million last year. The federal Women, Infants and Children supplemental food program provided $12.8 million to county residents last year. The National School Lunch program paid $5.6 million to local school[s]..."

"Political pandering to senior citizens will suck the future out of this country. My kids will inherit a shell. A noble effort to eradicate elder poverty in the 1930s has morphed over time into a cynical effort to buy senior votes with fattened entitlement programs."

"While Social Security keeps most seniors above the poverty line, there are a substantial number near poverty 'who are just getting by,' said Richard W. Johnson, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. Many economists say it is good that Americans are working later in life..."

'''The fact that this is an 18-year-old, rather than a 12-year-old -- there's a lot more clarity,' she said. She added: 'I don't care about sob stories, bad background, poverty -- none of that. As an adult, you know the difference between right and wrong. You have a choice...'"

"Chelmsford is among 10 communities selected to receive federal stimulus funds totaling $50.3 million for affordable housing projects that were halted as low-income-housing tax credit markets lost equity in the slumping economy..."

"Such widespread poverty forced people nearly out of the cash economy. As the late Benjamin Roth... wrote in his recently published The Great Depression: A Diary, 'In most cases the people moving to the farm feel they will at least be sure of plenty of food for their families.'"

"Nearly 24% of Americans older than 65 have incomes below the poverty threshold... And the United States, Ireland, South Korea and Mexico have the highest old-age poverty rates among the 30 OECD countries."

"Yes, they have lost equity in their homes and money in their retirement accounts; so have other Americans, many of whom face higher costs and more uncertain income than seniors. One measure of seniors' relative economic status: Children are twice as likely to be living in poverty."

"The RTA board favors limiting free rides to low-income seniors. Reducing the number of free rides would produce $37 million in new annual revenue for the CTA, Metra and Pace, officials said."