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work, as part of a research curriculum that Rebecca Grella, a Brentwood High School chemistry teacher, successfully pitched to administrators eight years ago. More than 60 students now take part. Ms. Grella, a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook, took advantage of her university connections to match Ms. Garvey with Dianna Padilla, a professor in the ecology and evolution department at Stony Brook, for the mussel research. Brentwood is a melting-pot community with more of a reputation for gangs than for budding scientists, but last year, Ms. Grella’s efforts paid off when three of her students were named Intel semifinalists. This year, two weeks after her family became homeless, Ms. Garvey found out she was among this year’s semifinalists. She said she could not imagine what her life would be like if she had not had the opportunity to study mussels. “Maybe flunking out of school, honestly,” she said. Instead, she hopes to attend Brown or Yale. Ms. DeGeneres’s show has already given her a $50,000 scholarship. On Tuesday, Samantha Garvey went to Washington. She met with John P. Holdren, the president’s science adviser. Steve Israel, her congressman, who had invited her there, gave her a personal tour of the Capitol. She met John Boehner, the speaker of the House, and Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader. She had dinner with Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Then, as a guest of Mr. Israel, she attended the State of Union address. “That was really, really cool,” she said. Afterward, Mr. Israel gave her a printed copy of the speech, signed by President Obama. The next morning back home — for now, that is still the homeless shelter — Ms. Garvey woke up and checked the Web site of the Intel Science Talent Search, where she learned that she was not one of the 40 finalists. “I was O.K. with it,” she said. “I was definitely O.K. with it.” Then she went to Manhattan for an appearance on the “Today Show” on NBC.
“Now it’s time to relax,” she said. Life will soon resume an air of normalcy. A day after Intel announced its semifinalists, Suffolk County officials said they had found a home for the Garveys. Ms. Garvey said the best part of the past couple of weeks was to “hopefully inspire the people who heard what I had to say.” On the flip side, she said, “the worst thing is the lack of sleeping.” The Garveys may finally move into their new home this weekend, and Ms. Garvey said she hoped to get back to the laboratory and her mussels next week. ARTICLE #2: THE WORKING POOR ARE NOT GETTING BY IN AMERICA The Working Poor Are Not Getting By in America Poverty, 2012 "Despite working hard, too many American families are struggling to get by, advance to the middle class and provide a secure future for their children." In the following viewpoint, the Working Poor Families Project asserts that many lowincome working families struggle and do not earn enough for financial security. Working for poverty-level wages and inadequate benefits, adults in these households, the project claims, pay much greater portions of their salaries to rent, are much less likely to have health insurance, and do not have the skills and education to succeed in the current economy. Therefore, the project recommends that federal policies advance the skills of working adults and help low-income families meet their basic needs. The Working Poor Families Project is a national initiative that advocates for low-income working families. As you read, consider the following questions: 1. How does the project address the myth that low-income working families do not work? 2. What national figures does the project cite for working adults and their education and skills? 3. What were the numbers of low-income working families in the United States in 2006, as stated by the project? America's low-income working families typically include men and women who work as cashiers, custodians, child care workers, health care aides and security guards—workers who constitute the backbone of an increasingly service-based economy. They work hard, pay taxes and strive to achieve a brighter economic future for their families. But they lack
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