• Student poverty on college campuses and accommodations of Etown

    According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly a third of all college students in the United States have household incomes below the poverty line, and 79 percent of students work either part-time or full-time while taking classes. What things are being done at Elizabethtown College to help with poverty? Much of the help

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  • Lancaster County poverty rate ranks tenth lowest in nation

    Lancaster County poverty rate ranks tenth lowest in nation

    • News
    • November 12, 2011

    Lancaster County has the 10th lowest poverty rate in the nation. According to Paula Wolf on lancasteronline.com in her article, “County’s Poverty Rate is 10th Lowest,” she wrote, “Of the United States’ 102 metropolitan areas with at least 500,000 residents, the county has the 10th lowest poverty rate at 10.5 percent. In 2010, the Census

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