In today’s rundown: Asking local governments to keep social services in their budgets.  |  Local students try to solve the poverty problem.  |  More older women are returning to school.

– “Think twice before you slice” — that’s the message from nonprofits to local governments that are making important budget decisions.  Chuck Bean from the Nonprofit Roundtable and Glen O’Gilvie from the Center for Nonprofit Advancement air their concerns on WAMU in this commentary.

– Elementary school students in one of Washington, D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods are discussing solutions to poverty as part of a program called the Poverty Project.  Click here to find out what they’ve come up with so far.

– The number of older, African American women returning to school is on the rise.  In this column, Courtland Milloy speaks with some women who are getting advanced degrees and finds out why they went back to school.

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