Sentences with phrase «for urban poor»

While street food has become an important source of ready, low - cost food for the urban poor but the health risks posed by such foods may outweigh their benefits.

«Food is a major expenditure for urban poor and this group's overall consumption falls with rising prices, which may push them below the poverty threshold of consumption,» Ahmed told environmentalresearchweb.

SANIMAS, meaning «sanitation by communities» in Bahasa, is centered on Ismawati's creation of a series of replicable waste and sanitation management options for urban poor settlements.

Centralised power generation, demanding different technical solutions, is needed for the urban poor.

In addition, compost - making initiatives create employment and provide income for the urban poor.

You ask us to shed a tear for the urban poor that might lose something in a modest redistribution.

And, «programs for the urban poor... stoke resentment and reinforce stereotypes among middle class taxpayers while enriching out - of - town owners and Wall Street investors of the for - profit housing industry, charter schools and development agencies while at the same time creating and sustaining a local class of often anti-union not - for - profit advocates.»

Is it better of worse than the average for urban poor?

Earlier this year Joseph Bast, president of the pro-voucher Heartland Institute, wrote: «Pilot voucher programs for the urban poor will lead the way to statewide universal voucher plans.

Even now the problem of developing a sustainable agriculture in order that future generations may eat does not grip the mind as does the problem of justice for the urban poor.

Not exact matches

China introduced a tiering system for its cities in the 1980s according to urban and infrastructure development needs, and has since become a proxy for societal classification, i.e., Tier 1 cities are the «wealthiest», whereas Tier 4 are the «poorest» (on a per capita basis).

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson proposed far - reaching changes to federal housing subsidies Wednesday, tripling rent for the poorest households and making it easier for housing authorities to impose work requirements.

The Post's Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey and Jeff Stein: «Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson proposed far - reaching changes to federal housing subsidies Wednesday, tripling rent for the poorest households and making it easier for housing authorities to impose work requirements.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

It has been the means for the transformation of many socially marginal groups in the U.S., from poor rural whites in Methodist and Assemblies of God churches to rural and dislocated urban blacks in Baptist and Church of God in Christ churches.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

For example, `' Low levels of food consumption and malnutrition are also hitting the urban poor in rich countries.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

Our view of Spirit - filled people must include Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, and the 1,300 congregations who join the Spirit's pleading for decent housing for the impoverished urban poor.

In fact, these conditions are worse today for the black poor, the one third of us who reside primarily in the urban centers like Chicago and New York.

Largely reduced to an echo chamber, where an elite minority seems increasingly to hear mainly its own voice, the urban press is partly responsible for a new privileged generation of Indians lacking, as Nussbaum points out, any «identification with the poor.»

Mark Anthony Mitchell, Sr., is Senior Pastor of Atlanta Urban Foursquare Church and Executive Director of Jesus for Justice Poor People's Campaign, a nonprofit community development corporation.

Funding agencies are prepared to help the «urban poor» but have no mental category for the suburban poor.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

In poor urban areas, limited access to land for the production of food is another challenge.

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

The Atma Jaya Medical Faculty research group looked at the treatment and advice given by physicians for children with acute diarrhoea in a poor and densely populated urban area of Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia).

But mothers in urban, poor and minority areas often face unique challenges as well: the sheer logistics of finding time to breastfeed, perhaps while juggling single motherhood and working a service job where it's difficult to find a private, clean place to use a breastpump, for example.

In poorer northern England urban seats such as Redcar and Hull, disaffected working - class voters deserted the Lib Dems as the local opposition to Labour, opting instead for Ukip.

A Labour skew in the current electoral arrangement is, so to speak, an urban myth; the real problem is that the poor no longer vote, since they no longer have anyone to vote for.

Mike Whyland, spokesman for the Assembly Democrats, is quoted in the NY Times this morning that there has «not been sufficient support» in the conference for the tax credit, though some members — especially in poorer, urban areas — have been under intense pressure to back it.

So there will be no jobs for poor people in urban areas, or making some changes that make sense.»

In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday proposed raising the amount that low - income families are expected to pay for rent - tripling it for the poorest households - as well as encouraging those receiving housing subsidies to...

The cut came after Syracuse was sanctioned for poor management by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Accra is seeking assistance from London to solve its poor urban planning challenges which have been identified as the cause of the capital's perennial flood and become a headache for governments.

For a poor, urban community of color to prosper — or, nowadays, survive — good education that's free and relevant is essential.

The work also showed that although the poorest households are reliant on forests for their daily needs, they also look elsewhere — for example, traveling to urban areas — when drastic action is needed to feed themselves or urgently acquire income.

In contrast, does a decline in usage mean that teachers found that it wasn't right for their students, who are disproportionately from large, poor, and urban schools?

Except for sporadic reports, Zika is a disease of the urban poor.

«It is particularly bad for urban birds during the breeding season when they are torn between allocating resources towards fighting the toxic effects of pollution or towards laying healthy eggs, both of which aren't helped by their poor diet.»

Although some reports suggest that nutrition trends in the northeast have been improving, 23 and others are documenting the rise in obesity in the middle class, 24 chronic malnutrition remains endemic and has advanced from the northeast's poorest rural areas to the urban peripheries.25 The standard food intake pattern in Brazil is based on rice or manioc, beans, coffee, bread, beef and, increasingly, sugar in the form of soft drinks and fruit juices, 26 none of which (except for beef liver) are noteworthy for their vitamin A content.

A scholarly publication is one in which the content is written by experts in a particular field of study - generally for the purpose of sharing The Populārēs (favouring the people, singular populāris) were a grouping in the late Roman Republic which favoured the cause of the plebeians (the commoners), particularly the urban poor.

As one recent study demonstrates, this «ghetto tax» means that the urban poor pay considerably more for goods and services ranging from food to auto insurance.

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In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

For instance, despite large court - ordered funding hikes to poor urban districts, the districts that were the focus of Abbott, New Jersey still received a grade of only C in equity (a ranking of 33rd in the nation) from Education Week.

It was certainly unusual for an affluent, high - performing suburban district like Douglas County to aggressively pursue a mix of policies mix primarily designed for poor, low - performing urban districts.

For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 201For example, Krueger (1998) uses data from the NAEP and documents test score increases over time, with large improvements for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 201for disadvantaged children from poor urban areas; the Current Population Survey shows declining dropout rates since 1975 for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 201for those from the lowest income quartile (Digest of Education Statistics, NCES 2012).