Sentences with phrase «large pockets of poverty»

In Oklahoma, a mostly rural state with large pockets of poverty around Tulsa, the biggest chunk of school improvement money is concentrated in six persistently low - performing schools in Tulsa.

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The fact that large pockets of people across the world are still living in extreme poverty is being exacerbated by rises in global food and fuel prices, as well as climate change.

Brazil's impoverished northeast — where Zika has drawn the most attention — represents the largest pocket of rural poverty in Latin America, a situation that is likely aggravated by the country's current economic collapse.