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"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."

"Fellowship Square's Christian Care Manor in east Mesa is making room for affordable low-income senior housing through a $4 million federal grant that means residents will no longer have to move as their need for care increases."

"Who doesn t have health insurance in Mississippi? Mostly, they re the working people owners of small businesses, waiters and cooks, construction workers and such."

T"he dining centers are not necessarily for low-income seniors. The centers allow seniors at any income level to bring friends or meet new ones, Theisen said"