So, you buy this products for your friend, and all this stuff goes to poor kids?
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Poor kids and rich kids would be more likely to meet each other on the playground.
And obviously poor kids are the ones who are going to benefit most from those programs.
And, in fact, his priority and his policy is to make sure that we cover poor kids first.
In his world, investors help poor kids find dental care is far worse than leaving children in pain.
This is all good for the beneficiaries of the celebrity foundations, from poor kids to the environment and spiritual concerns.
For instance, they will not support subsidized school lunches for poor kids unless their own children also get cheap food.
As we just talked about, the film "Slumdog Millionaire" has raised awareness of the lives of poor kids in India.
They listened to experts talk about foundation tax-planning, about big causes like wiring up American schools and helping poor kids overseas.
And we need to cut the Medicaid program by a third -- this helps poor kids, most of them in working families.
There will be rich kids who land legacy slots at fancy colleges, poor kids who fall behind while attending rotten elementary schools.
By the time poor kids start school, or even pre-school, they are already behind, the gap is likely to only grow over time.
Otellini's people have scoffed at the super-cheap laptop as a toy, lacking too many real-world functions to actually help poor kids learn computer skills.
Ultimately, it's a cost-effective investment in a future when poor kids have the same chance at success as the obsessed-over Grovers of the world.
And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives.
We want to make sure that poor kids can still get a checkup, that food stamps are still available for folks who are desperately in need.
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An afterschool and summer education program for poor kids, the group demonstrated that its students had a seven-month head start in reading, writing and math over their peers.
Too many educators let themselves off the hook by telling themselves that poor kids from struggling backgrounds are somehow incapable of learning as well as kids from wealthier communities.
In the past decade his foundation has handed out 150, 750 college scholarships, 10 million pairs of contact lenses and 66 million bicycles to poor kids who wouldn't otherwise get to school.
And poor kids, who need it most, lack access.
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Our decades of work on child nutrition programs has convinced us that no matter how much the food improves, many children, especially teenagers, will not eat school meals because they carry the stigma of "poor kids food".
The Ninth Circuit decision denying VSP tax-exempt status threatens to "divert to the federal treasury funds from the Sight for Students program, " depriving the poor kids and jeopardizing their eye care, the charities argue in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Summarizing an avalanche of efforts to equalize lives by improving the schools attended by poor kids, economist Eric A. Hanushek of the University of Rochester and economic consultant Julie A. Somers of PHB Hagler Bailly report that these efforts have failed.
Clinton continued with his trademark dishonesty in saying that the Republicans proposed to cut Medicaid by a third, which would hurt poor kids, nursing home care for seniors and people with disabilities, and kids with special needs like Downs Syndrome or Autism.
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And so what you end up with in New York City, is a very small number of very good schools that serve largely middle, and upper middle class kids - and then a large number of not-so-good schools that serve mostly poor kids.
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There is also research showing that the least experienced teachers get placed at schools with lots of poor minority kids.
Without addressing the issue, poor black kids will still be isolated from the networks, skills and career opportunities that they need to bridge this gap.
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