Sentences with phrase «impoverished urban poor»

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.

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In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

In impoverished urban areas — Connecticut's cities are, in stark contrast to its suburbs, overwhelmingly poor — finding and retaining quality teachers was next to impossible.

But with millions of Catholics today firmly rooted in the middle class and above, it's also easy to forget that 50, 75, and 100 years ago, America's urban poor were often recent Catholic immigrants facing many of the same obstacles as today's impoverished inner - city families.