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"Calling themselves World Changers, about 250 teenagers from across the United States... [will] spend the next week painting, roofing, building wheelchair ramps and replacing siding at 28 homes for low-income, elderly and disabled residents..."

"'It seems pretty clear from the research that all too often these atypicals are being used to calm people down,' said Thomas Snedden, director of Pennsylvania's prescription-drug programs, known as PACE, for low-income residents ages 65 and older."

"The number of female service members who have become homeless after leaving the military has jumped dramatically in recent years, according to new government estimates, presenting the Veterans Administration with a challenge..."

"[A]t General Grant Houses, a sprawling public housing development off West 125th Street in Manhattan, the eco-conscious are mainly people like Ms. Allen and Sarah Martin, who as leaders of the residents' association fret... about recycling."

"As resources shrink, persons receiving state-funded care from private community providers of these services face service [cuts]... Also being bludgeoned are their long-underpaid caregivers, who...are stuck at poverty-level wages..."

"Those who qualify for the weatherization program are low income, disabled or senior citizens, said Mayhew. Income levels are $21,000 for a single person or a combined income of $29,000 for a couple, she said."

"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..."