Sentences with phrase «inner city residents»

MUNI is the slower central city subway & streetcar system used frequently (and frequently derided) by inner city residents.

Now if Paul was writing today, he could have written about blacks vs whites, Republicans vs. Democrats, rich vs. poor, police vs. inner city residents, or even something like Christians vs. Muslims.

This is particularly important for inner city residents who are disproportionately victims of violent crime.

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The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Many of these activists think black sociologist William Julius Wilson is correct to argue that structural changes in the U.S. economy have led to a mismatch of the labor and job supplies: residents of the inner city are unable to win the types of jobs that are available in the city, and they can't get to the jobs that are available to them in the suburbs.

She says the residents «think somebody owes them something,» and complains that they spend money on expensive hairstyles, makeup and leather coats but won't pay a token fee to send their children to a weeklong summer camp program her church runs for the benefit of inner - city youngsters.

Whatever is unique in the Episcopal Church would be even more difficult to define in the inner city; not many residents here are worried about apostolic succession, valid sacraments or Henry VIII's sex life.

The proposal, which was eventually adopted in a weakened form, spoke not of jobs allocated to minority groups but of the percentage of workers to be drawn from unemployed residents of Milwaukee's inner city.

The wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations would share the tax burden with those (including many union members) who enjoy the most generous employer - provided health plans and those (including inner - city residents with suburban jobs) who commute long distances in gas - guzzling cars.

They used the family issue to single out scapegoats (single mothers and inner - city residents), and they avoided talking about the economy and failed to develop meaningful and practical family programs.

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

Nicoletti says he wants to ensure that the area's future projects — from Interstate 81 project to the Inner Harbor development to the State Fair overhaul — include new jobs for city residents.

Over time, it earned a reputation among some in the city's African American community for what was considered bully boy tactics that contributed to strained relations between police and many inner - city residents.

That doesn't help Syracuse United Neighbors Executive Director Rich Puchalski, whose organization wants to secure a certain portion of the Inner Harbor project's jobs for Syracuse city residents.

Syracuse, N.Y. — A dozen members of the Urban Jobs Task Force demonstrated at the Syracuse Inner Harbor Thursday, calling on COR Development Co. to hire city residents to help build its $ 342 million complex of hotels, apartments, retail and office space at the former Barge Canal terminal.

The center of rare - earth mining there is Baotou, a city in Inner Mongolia with 2.3 million residents that's become something of a poster child for mining's ecological wreckage.

The population under study is made up of inner - city Atlanta residents, part of the Grady Trauma Project overseen by Ressler and Bradley.

Founded in 2000 by a group of inner - city residents who lost their gardening space to developers, Milwaukee.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

When I took a group of at - risk high - school boys from the inner - city of Chicago to volunteer at a homeless shelter, numerous residents commended the boys, telling them «It's so great to see you all in here helping people instead of being out on the street gang - banging.»

And though the residents» «home school» is a well - designed, high - functioning inner city school, they have structured mini-internships in some of Chicago's most challenging neighborhood schools in order to prepare them for the teaching and leadership obstacles they will face once they begin teaching.

But don't limit yourselves to charters for inner - city residents.

«This gives a carte blanche to any resident to take their kids to private schools,» Murillo said, «and it could devastate programs that are providing innovative programs for inner city schools and high - poverty schools.»

Home brings to life the unheard voices of the young residents and staff who live and work behind the anonymous concrete walls of an inner city high - rise hostel.

But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual «urban underclass» depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore's inner - city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early life opportunities available to low - income populations.

One resident believes «the only knock is [that] the state [money] that fund [s] the school seem [s] to be short every year due to most [of the money] going to the inner city schools» (Great Schools — North Haven, 2016).

The red - brick terraced housing in inner - city Liverpool had fallen into disrepair, with residents battling to resist demolition.

The Broad's location, as a new jewel in a downtown revitalization project that Eli Broad has helped orchestrate, is not entirely without self - serving attributes, but it also makes the museum accessible to a much larger proportion of Los Angeles residents, particularly those from lower income, inner city areas.

What does it take to design an urban bike sharing system for a city like Copenhagen, where the bikes outnumber the inner - city residents?

National, Based in Boston About Blog ICIC's mission is to drive economic prosperity in America's inner cities through private sector investment to create jobs, income and wealth for local residents.

All he can say is that his clients are the crème de la crème, residents of Calgary's posh west end and the inner city.

The cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, which were first built up during the 1920s land boom, are now experiencing an influx of new residents as well as inner - city gentrification.

Not infrequently a real estate speculator would buy some run - down houses in the inner city, make cosmetic repairs and sell them to inner - city, black residents who bought them using the new FHA mortgage.

For readers unfamiliar with Sydney, Leichhardt is a suburb in the city's inner - west that inexplicably attracts lesbian residents in droves.