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"[S]aid Friday he would not sign legislation to take away free bus and train rides from all but low-income seniors"

"The new St. Mary's Center will continue the nonprofit organization's mission of feeding, providing housing and counseling for low-income seniors and homeless people"

"A bill sponsored by Rep. Suzanne Bassi, a Republican from Palatine, would limit free rides to seniors who qualify under the state's low-income guidelines"

"The program helps people who need labor and supplies to rebuild their homes. It was designed to help low-income elderly or handicapped homeowners"

"The rule designates state inspectors and Medicare and Medicaid contractors as federal employees, a group usually shielded from providing evidence for either side in private litigation"

"Convinced that the federal poverty line has failed to capture the true measure of need, especially in an expensive place like California, the researchers created their own index, dubbed the Elder Economic Security Standard"

"[F]indings reveal 47 percent of state residents 65 and older are unable to pay for their basic needs. That's 864,000 seniors, more than half of whom struggle at home alone"

"[W]e need to have a basic benefit that keeps people out of poverty, and that we need to work at both ends -- toward fiscal sustainability and toward ensuring that people, particularly at the bottom, have an adequate benefit"

"'We promote low-income subsidy and anything to help them save on their prescription drug medications'"

"Payments also will be made to recipients of Supplemental Security Income, which aids low-income people who are aged, blind or disabled"

"Most home care aides are women, low income and minority, and many of them are immigrants"

"I cannot consciously apologize for providing food to families in need or providing recreational activity to seniors on fixed income"