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More than 3,000 Zions Bank employees and their family members have volunteered to paint 50 homes in Utah and Idaho this week for the paint-a-thon...[,] designed to help low-income, elderly and disabled homeowners.

"The apartments at 2530 Slevin St., which serve low-income adults age 60 and older, cost $3.8million to complete, said Bart Weigel, director of communications and development for Catholic Charities of Louisville"

"The state Department of Agriculture is offering free locally grown fruits and vegetables this summer to low-income seniors."

"The new, three-story housing complex will be built next to the 20-unit apartment complex for low-income elderly that's already part of the south side UCC complex"

"She has been selected as the second recipient of a home in the Columbus Cottage Program for low-income elderly residents"

"[R]esidents are pushing back against the culture of unhealthy eating in low-income neighborhoods, known as food deserts because of the lack of places to buy quality foods"

"Edi Crislip, employment-training coordinator for Lake, Sumter and Hernando counties, said 30 to 50 applications cross her desk weekly. To qualify, applicants must be 55 and have low income"

"Increasing the number of people who can't afford retirement could give us widespread poverty among the elderly -- a social ill that the 1935 Social Security Act aimed to eliminate"

"Legal Services, which provides counseling for low-income clients, reports that seniors with fixed incomes are especially vulnerable to being displaced by foreclosure"

"Wagner, a great-grandmother and retired bus driver living in a low-income apartment, could not afford the drug herself. So she asked her state-run health insurance plan for help"

"AARP says about 40 percent of the state's senior citizens make less than $22,000 a year and roughly half the population would be eligible for the program"

"Social Security and Medicare help to prevent millions of seniors from falling into poverty in retirement. The programs must be fixed, sooner rather than later"