She was instrumental in a campaign to save the Carnegie library which was later converted into a community centre serving low-income adults.

"We have a class of uninsured low-income adults, regardless of age."

In 2008, for reasons of cost, Oregon's Medicaid agency accepted 10,000 uninsured low-income adults into its insurance program based on a lottery with 89,824 applicants.

Currently spread around to five locations, the Center provides classes for low-income adults on topics related to literacy and employment skills.

A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation published in June 2009 found that 45% of low-income adults under age 65 lack health insurance.

The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic provides free medical and mental care to low-income adults without health insurance.

On health care, he should be pushing for subsidies to expand medical coverage for low-income adults with dependent children.

Vermont now offers the nation's most generous health benefits to children, low-income adults and elderly residents of modest means.

Those same advocates say Family Health Plus is one of the most aggressive efforts to cover low-income adults.

And he would expand assistance to the states to cover more children and low-income adults under Medicaid.