Sentences with phrase «income white neighborhoods»

They found that the number of people who lived at least 5 years after being diagnosed and treated was about 84 to 88 percent in high - income white neighborhoods, compared with 80 percent statewide.

The same was true in Los Angeles, where the higher - income white neighborhoods went against charter founder Ref Rodriquez in his school board election bid.

Not exact matches

Or take our friends who have moved into a low - income, predominantly black neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, where a white and black pastor lead a church together.

RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.

The miniseries «centers on Nick Wasicsko, the young mayor of a midsize American city who is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low - income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

Many civil rights leaders and teachers called for leniency, and some wondered why black teachers in low - income neighborhoods faced racketeering charges when white Wall Street workers who were implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis did not.

By contrast, South Jamaica Houses in a black Queens neighborhood was only 12 percent white, and its low - income tenants were subsidized.

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

«The location where we are right now (is) a neighborhood that is middle - income, middle - class and predominantly white,» Marcio Sierra said.

New York city district administrators, therefore, now face the challenge of drawing and redrawing school zones as they try to find a balance between this intense segregation in these schools, the influx of white middle and upper - class families as gentrifiers, and the low - income minority families already in the neighborhood.

For example, in the notoriously unaffordable San Francisco metropolitan area, renters in white communities can expect to spend 48.8 percent of their income on rent each month — certainly a very large share of their income, but nevertheless small in comparison to minority neighborhoods.

In a typical white neighborhood, home buyers can expect to spend 15.2 percent of income on mortgage payments each month, solidly below the pre-housing boom average of 18.9 percent.

Politics peeks through, at moments: a photograph of a white police officer watching the proceedings; an advertisement for Colt 45 Malt Liquor, which targeted low - income African - American neighborhoods.

But too often, low - income neighborhoods and communities of color get picked as sites for polluting factories, while wealthier, predominantly white communities are left alone.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

In San Francisco, Calif., renters in black neighborhoods have to spend 74.8 percent of their income on rent, while renters in Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 62.5 percent; renters in white neighborhoods have to spend 48.8 percent.

In the last five years, the amount of income spent on rent has grown more in minority communities than in white ones, as well — by three percentage points in white neighborhoods, four percentage points in black neighborhoods and seven percentage points in Hispanic neighborhoods.

In the New York City metropolitan area, for instance, renters in black neighborhoods have to spend 57.5 percent of their income on rent, while renters in Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 67.5 percent — considerably above the 37.8 percent spent by renters in white neighborhoods.

According to the report, renters in majority black neighborhoods have to spend 43.7 percent of their income on rent, while renters in majority Hispanic neighborhoods have to spend 48.1 percent; renters in majority white neighborhoods, to compare, have to spend 30.7 percent — on par with the ideal budget for housing, 30 percent.

Anaheim, California is one of the fastest growing cities in Orange County and with 55 constituent neighborhoods filled with both white and blue collar workers; the city is home to a diverse collection of residents of various income levels and ethnic backgrounds.