Latest Coverage

"The CARES Home Health Agency was licensed in 1989, and 50 home health aides joined the CARES team. Through the years, CARES home care services continued to develop. A free medical clinic for low-income and uninsured seniors opened in 1992."

"Nearly a third of the state's IOUs will target mandatory payments to the disabled, low-income seniors and those enrolled in the state's welfare-to-work programs, but recipients will not see their monthly checks reduced."

"[P]ersistent, "toxic" stress -- such as neglect or extreme poverty -- may program a child's nervous system to be on perpetual high alert. Over time, this can damage the immune response and lead to chronic ailments, such as heart disease..."

"Although the food depository's truck started its tour in Skokie, it will usually head to other sections of Cook County with a high concentration of poverty..."

"If it meant preserving your retirement and your longtime home as opposed to the possibility of poverty and potential homelessness, would it persuade you to divorce your spouse?"

"It's no coincidence that a community meeting about the recession's effect on charities is set for Tuesday, hours before the fiscal year ends. That night, just after midnight, the budgets of about 100 nonprofits will be cut by tens of thousands..."

"[In the last two years], Palm Tran cut weekend and evening hours on some routes and made the low-income disabled begin paying for bus service[, and] got rid of its popular bus program for older adults."

"Amid state funding cutbacks, the Centers for Elders Independence is asking Piedmont and Montclair residents to consider volunteering... for the largely lower-income seniors who visit the organization's four day centers in the East Bay."

"Lions Club members work with local optometrists and ophthamologists to refurbish the glasses and get them to low-income people, many of whom live in the poorest neighborhoods in Immokalee."

"[T]he results reflect 'a two-tier health care system, one that is fully accessible for the wealthy and one that is not comprehensive and may not be there for those in underserved communities or who lose their jobs.'"

"Some utilities have voluntarily put together programs to help low-income residents pay bills. For example, TXU Energy, the state s largest electricity retailer, has said [it will provide discounts] for low-income customers and customers age 62 or older."

"About 80 percent of low-income families' earnings are spent on basic needs, according to the 2007 Consumer Expenditure Survey. To help these households, Congress should extend tax credits to encourage them to invest in retirement plans."