Sentences with phrase «poorest census tracts»

Located in one of the nation's poorest census tracts, 85 percent of its students are black or Latino, and 86 percent are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced - price lunches.

Properties should be sold for a dollar and residents in the poorest census tracts should be encouraged to secure grants to renovate delinquent houses.

While the City of Kingston, home to some of the Ulster County's poorest census tracts and a recipient of federal entitlement money for anti-poverty programs, has a combined poverty / ALICE rate of 61 percent, the rate in Shandaken and Saugerties is 56 percent.

«As poor a census tract as you can find,» says John Horan, who had established his North Lawndale charter high school in one part of the sprawling Howland building.