Sentences with phrase «poorest city in the nation»

Peoples Stokes told WBFO & AM - 970 News with Romney coming to Buffalo, the third poorest city in the nation, «you think he would bring us a million dollars» instead of raising a million for himself.

Syracuse is one of the poorest cities in the nation.

Special help for Rochester Calling Rochester one of the poorest cities in the nation, Cuomo wants to create a Rochester Anti-Poverty Task Force.

In Memphis, one of the poorest cities in the nation, 87 percent of students get subsidized meals, while 84 percent are black.

Not exact matches

Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the nation's poorest major city.

Stockton could become the first city in the nation to give some of its poorer citizens a $ 500 a month basic income, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday.

No compendium of social statistics is needed to see the vast disparities in economic advantage which separate the inner - city black poor from the rest of the nation.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

In It Takes a Nation, Rebecca Blank notes that only 12 percent of the U.S. poor live in inner - city neighborhoods with concentrated povertyIn It Takes a Nation, Rebecca Blank notes that only 12 percent of the U.S. poor live in inner - city neighborhoods with concentrated povertyin inner - city neighborhoods with concentrated poverty.)

He is expected to contrast downtown and waterfront development touted in the mayor's campaign brochures with crumbling East Side neighborhoods that help rank Buffalo as one of the nation's poorest cities.

Cuomo, while praising the state's Marriage Equality Act, Paid Family Leave Act, the free SUNY tuition plan and the rise of the minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 as successes, he blamed the rise in anti-Semitism and «hate» crimes on President Donald Trump's administration, which is «dividing the nation, pitting rich against poor and black against white.»

The New Jersey Department of Higher Education has awarded a $ 1.6 million planning grant to Rutgers University to create an innovative community center housing a laboratory school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the nation's poorest cities.

Hayes is willing to do whatever it takes to help East Camden's children overcome the difficult circumstances involved in living in New Jersey's poorest city and the fourth most - violent city in the nation.

In a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.&raquIn a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.&raquin inner cities.»

From that vantage point, the Waltons have deduced that what poor children of color in the nation's big cities need to get a good education is a lesson in market economics — that what they offer Wal - Mart consumers is bound to work for parents and schools.

Times are tough in Brazil: With almost daily political scandals and a fierce drought in the nation's largest city — brought on in part by poor resource management — Brazilians seem desperate to rekindle their faith in their country.

The poorest family (not a homeless drug abuser or psychiatric case) living in any American city lives better than the vast majority of ordinary people in poor developing nations.

On the other hand, living in downtown Cincinnati, one of the nation's poorest cities, means that you may not be doing very well financially.