Sentences with phrase «most impoverished city»

Little did any of us imagine then that less than a year later, Central Falls, the smallest and most impoverished city in the smallest state, would be in the national spotlight.

In Murder in Milwaukee, Theroux spends time in one of the most impoverished cities in the US during a period of heightened tensions between police and the African - American community following two police shootings.

The high unemployment rate turned Saginaw into one of the most impoverished cities in America.

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From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

An elected official in the City of Buffalo, Council Member David Rivera recalled Lt. Duffy saying to a group of Latinos he met with in Buffalo the week before the election he'll be back, but no one has heard from him ever since and there are no Latinos from the City of Buffalo on any of the transitions teams though it is the largest community outside of NYC and among the most impoverished one with one of the highest unemployment rates in the regions, dropout rates and dependency on social services.

He prides himself on living in one of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods and being a longtime advocate for progressive initiatives.

As I see it, a crude identity politics such as Deborah Glick, Lisa Miller, and others espouse can do nothing but impoverish public discourse in this city — the most diverse in the United States — and distract us from the pursuit of progressive policy change.

These events aren't referred to directly but impoverished, inner - city Oakland provides a very stark contrast to the beauty of the mythical African nation of Wakanda, where most of the action takes place.

Kim Sweet is executive director of Advocates for Children of New York, an organization working to secure quality and equal public education services for New York City's most impoverished and vulnerable families.

Van Asselt Elementary School sits near the southern edge of Seattle in one of the city's most impoverished and ethnically diverse neighborhoods.

Many charter operators get around the requirements to have open lotteries by layering the application process with burdensome paperwork, unusual enrollment periods, or by advertising in sources they know the city's most impoverished families do not read.

Today's school - choice programs are little short of a godsend for impoverished families stuck in awful city schools, but they generally have little to offer most middle - class families.

A potent earthquake centered just 10 miles from a city of close to 2 million people, most of whom are deeply impoverished, is a recipe for utter calamity, and initial reports out of Port - au - Prince, Haiti, and nearby communities indicate that is what has unfolded in that unlucky country.