Wyoming, where the cost of doing business is low and state-level income taxes are nonexistant, came in 4th with a rate of 1.6%.

FORBES: North Dakota Leads List Of America's Fastest-Growing States

By third grade, children from low-income families who are not reading at grade level are six times less likely to graduate from high school than students who are proficient.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Many of the jobs are administrative, and not the entry-level pathways once dreamed of for low-income workers.

FORBES: President Obama's Green Jobs Pretense Is An Unmitigated Fiasco

California has taken the idea of managed care for low-income seniors and people with disabilities to a whole new level.

FORBES: California Will Shift 456,000 Low Income Seniors Into Managed Care

In particular, low-income people would be forced to save even if their present level of consumption is meagre.

ECONOMIST: Compelling reasons to save

If some day you do reach the happy position of achieving your retirement savings objectives, you can reduce stress even further by putting some of that money into a low-cost annuity that will guarantee you a certain level of income for the rest of your life (options that cover a surviving spouse, or are indexed for inflation, are available but reduce annual income).

FORBES: Retirement

Dropping out remains a problem at the high school level, especially among students from racial and ethnic minorities and low-income families.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section