Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods with a high concentration»

In the city's neighborhoods with the highest concentration of immigrants, DiNapoli said the number of businesses grew by 14.8 percent between 2000 and 2007 — far faster than the rest of the city, which grew by 3.3 percent.

Elmhurst, Corona, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside and Woodside top the list of the city's neighborhoods with the highest concentration of immigrants.

At the end of the study, children who lived in neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and particulates had experienced greater declines in insulin sensitivity and had signs of impaired pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin.

When immigrant parents live in neighborhoods with a high concentration of people from their same ethnic background, their babies weigh less than those of Canadian - born parents.

For six years, he also led an initiative to establish Family - Community Resource Centers in schools serving neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty and mobility.

But, child poverty rates remain high and more children live in neighborhoods with a high concentration of poverty.

This generally drives down the overall property value in neighborhoods with high concentrations of these empty homes.

REALTOR ® Associations with well - planned diversity programs create a stronger of community, particularly in neighborhoods with high concentrations of foreign - born and minority residents who are moving up the socioeconomic ladder and are buying homes.

Not exact matches

Although the food depository's truck started its tour in Skokie, it will usually head to other sections of Cook County with a high concentration of poverty, including the Chicago neighborhoods of Chatham, Chicago Lawn, Fuller Park, Kenwood and Uptown, Dolgan said.

Kids who stick with their neighborhood schools find themselves among student bodies with higher concentrations of poverty, the study says.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

The modest neighborhoods that unfurl nearby are hemmed in by Interstate 4, dotted with union halls — and burdened by some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city.

But the end result in both cases is that many of the more motivated and engaged parents jump ship, ultimately leaving the neighborhood schools with a higher concentration of the most challenging students.