(Nov. 22) -- Every Friday afternoon, the backpacks are placed carefully on the floors of the hallways in the elementary schools of Moberly, Mo.

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Thousands of people have lined up Tuesday for a chance at millions of stimulus dollars set aside to help Detroit's homeless and low-income residents. The money is available to help low-income residents from becoming homeless and homeless residents to find housing.

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Many Americans believe they live in a classless society, but this conviction is tested by the sight of a mouth packed with mangled or missing teeth. It's visual code for hillbilly.

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The Democratic senator from Oregon has been the Energizer Bunny of health reform for the past five years. This week he lobbed a big rhetorical stink bomb.

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WASHINGTON – The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.

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The foreclosure crisis has been the housing story since 2007. When it began, the story seemed simple enough: Some owners had taken out loans they could not afford, home values dropped, and, lacking the ability to refinance or sell for a profit, foreclosure followed.

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Two years ago, Taishia Jenerette was holding down two jobs, caring for her 6-year-old daughter and struggling as a single mother with too little time and too many bills.

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St. Petersburg educator and activist Marva Dennard has pleaded guilty to charges that she stole more than $150,000 from state scholarship programs intended to help low-income and disabled students.

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Howard University Hospital will be offering free medical treatment to low-income, uninsured patients on June 18 in a new clinic on the first floor of the hospital.


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The school, called the Equity Project, is premised on the theory that excellent teachers — and not revolutionary technology, talented principals or small class size — are the critical ingredient for success.

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Many women are not reaching their full potential in math, and that can hold them back in the job market. Allannah Thomas is working to change that through Helicon, a nonprofit group in New York specializing in math instruction for low-income women.

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Juan Murillo used to spend hundreds of dollars a year at check-cashing outlets because he was too intimidated by the U.S. banking system to open an account and did not speak enough English to write a check himself.

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The Florida Department of Children & Families says it did nothing to contribute to the March 13 death of Zachary Johnson, a Lakeland toddler shaken and dropped while in the temporary care of his aunt and uncle.

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Across the country, communities are working to end homelessness by investing in Housing First approaches that help families and single adults get back into permanent housing. Until recently, many of these communities were reducing homelessness.

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A new federal program starting this fall promises relief and hope for millions of students and recent graduates burdened with big federal educational debts.

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Up to 10 low-income school districts or communities could help pay tuition for all college-bound students who live there under legislation signed today by Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

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The broad outlines of Obama's recovery package are becoming clear: heavy on the roads and bridges, with a healthy side of tax cuts. But I hope it doesn't end there.

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D.C. public school students took three times as many college-level tests this year on average as they did a decade ago, part of a trend that is making the senior year of high school comparable to the freshman year of college at many Washington area schools.

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today an initial set of grants totaling $69 million as part of its recently unveiled initiative (.pdf) to double college-completion rates for low-income students.

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I am a middle-age white male who voted for Obama. . . . My question: How will young blacks or any people of color see this as a real advantage to them or a genuine opportunity for them to model themselves in the Obama image?

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Most people need banks, but many cannot maintain the high minimum deposits required to avoid monthly charges.

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As the state of Michigan and more communities struggle to find solutions to poverty, we must have a better idea of what poverty means to the state's lower-income children.

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What's the big deal about ACORN if registrations still have to be verified anyway?

What's the big deal about ACORN, if registrations have to be verified anyway?

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