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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Early Childhood Coordinator Jacki Wimmer reads to pre-K students on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at Iaeger Elementary School in Iaeger, W.Va. Wimmer works in a program that provides a bag of books to families to encourage reading at home. Wimmer says some students never see a book until kindergarten. The school is located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Early Childhood Coordinator Jacki Wimmer allows pre-K students Austin Matney, left, and Adrian Foley an opportunity to find the frog on the page of a book she reads to the class on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at Iaeger Elementary School in Iaeger, W.Va. Wimmer works in a program that provides a bag of books to families to encourage reading at home. Wimmer says some students never see a book until kindergarten. The school is located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Classwork adorns the hallway outside of a Iaeger Elementary School classroom on Tuesday, May 7, 2012, in Iaeger, W.Va. The school is located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Principal Florisha McGuire of Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., discusses on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, the need for additional resources for students and their families. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Howie Mitchell, a social studies teacher at Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., plays basketball against students during an after school program on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Justin Underwood, center, a reading and language arts teacher at Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., prepares to play a students versus teachers basketball game after school on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Emma Cline, a third grader at Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., completes work on a computer after school on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Leanasha Jones, right, and Bobby Kennedy, fourth graders at Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., play video games after school on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Shaevon Boyd, a third grader at Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., works on a reading assignment during an after school program on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 3:35:44 AM EST
Destiny Morefield, a third grader at Southside K-8 School in War, W.Va., hands in a completed reading assignment during an after school program on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The school located in McDowell County, an area overwhelmed with poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and teacher shortages, provides after school access to computers, tutoring, recreation and a meal. McDowell County on Wednesday was expected to win approval to expand its role to include social services in a county that faces deep economic challenges. The project, called Reconnecting McDowell, brings together medical professionals, telecommunications firms and a teachers' union. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
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Posted: 3/21/2013 7:38:25 PM EST
Bernice Spotted Eagle explains to the crowd gathered at the press conference that she has been fighting for custody of her grandson but claims to have been told by the state Department of Social Services that she is too old to care for the child, Thursday, March 21, 2013 in Rapid City, S.D. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)
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Posted: 3/21/2013 7:38:25 PM EST
Ranzle Lays Bad, left facing, of Porcupine, and Sioux Janis, of Oglala, listen to questions from the crowd during a press conference at the Adobe Eco Hotel in Rapid City, S.D. on Thursday March 21, 2013. The Rosebud and Oglala Sioux tribes have filed a class action lawsuit against at least two Department of Social Services employees, Pennington County State's Attorney Mark Vargo and presiding 7th Circuit Judge Jeff Davis. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)
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Posted: 2/12/2013 5:03:37 PM EST
David Martin and his wife Pamela Martin are seen in undated photos provided by the Kansas City Missouri Police Department. David Martin, 42, and his wife, Pamela Martin, 41, are accused of handcuffing the husband's teenage son to a basement pole , and have been charged with child abuse. The couple were charged Tuesday, Feb. 12 2013 in Clay County Circuit Court with felonious restraint and child abuse. The 17-year-old was found Feb. 4 after a neighbor contacted a social services agency. Police found the boy in the basement curled in a fetal position and locked to a steel pole. (AP Photo/Kansas City Missouri Police Department)
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Posted: 11/15/2012 9:27:06 AM EST
Protesters are removed from the Caixa Bank by Basque police during a demonstration against social services cuts and evictions in Barakaldo November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Vincent West
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Posted: 11/15/2012 9:27:06 AM EST
Protesters are removed from the Caixa Bank by Basque police during a demonstration against social services cuts and evictions in Barakaldo November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Vincent West
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Posted: 11/15/2012 8:49:01 AM EST
Protesters are removed from the Caixa Bank by Basque police during a demonstration against social services cuts and evictions in Barakaldo November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Vincent West
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Posted: 11/15/2012 8:49:01 AM EST
Protesters are removed from the Caixa Bank by Basque police during a demonstration against social services cuts and evictions in Barakaldo November 15, 2012. REUTERS/Vincent West
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Posted: 10/25/2012 6:03:22 AM EST
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest called by a Portuguese Republican Guard force association against economic austerity measures taken by Portugal's government in Lisbon, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Portugal's center-right coalition government announced a state budget for 2013 that if approved it will mean a significant tax increase and cuts in social services and civil service layoffs. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Posted: 10/1/2012 7:18:23 PM EST
In this Sept. 22, 2012 photo provided by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Maurice Lim Miller, 66, a social services innovator who designs projects that reward and track self-sufficiency among residents of low-income neighborhoods in Oakland, San Francisco and Boston, is seen at his home in Oakland, Calif. Miller is among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Don Feria)
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Posted: 10/1/2012 7:18:23 PM EST
In this Sept. 22, 2012 photo provided by the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Maurice Lim Miller, 66, a social services innovator who designs projects that reward and track self-sufficiency among residents of low-income neighborhoods in Oakland, San Francisco and Boston, is seen at his home in Oakland, Calif. Miller is among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Don Feria)
