Sentences with phrase «residents lack access»

Long Island has seen an increase in the number of what the federal government calls food deserts, areas where residents lack access to affordable healthy food.

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

And «more than half of the 3.4 million residents lacking access to clean drinking water,» according to POLITICO.

Elsa Seguinot indicated that she had a lot of family in Puerto Rico, and after the storm abated most of the island's residents lacked access to electricity and clean water.

Not exact matches

«More and more residents in the Outaouais are going to Ottawa to receive treatment, because of a lack of access,» Mercier candidate AmirKhadir said.

In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.

In wealthy Lakeview and Lincoln Park, and in the shadow of mighty skyscrapers downtown, one in 10 residents regularly goes hungry or lacks access to a healthy diet.

Broadband is rapidly becoming a necessity in everyday life and the data we have previously compiled indicates many of our residents are lacking speed and choice, do not have sufficient, reliable access to the Internet, or are facing a combination of both issues.

The ID cards will be available to all New York City residents age 14 and older, but are considered especially important for undocumented individuals who have difficulty accessing services because they lack identification.

The meeting was organized by Senator Klein's office in the latest attempt to address and resolve outstanding resident concerns at the properties that range from reports of tenant harassment, potential violation of rent stabilization laws, massive construction projects impairing quality of life, lack of elevator service for the disabled, and no access to laundry facilities.

Though few places in Washington State could be described as food deserts for those with access to a car, 6 % of low - income residents lacked reasonable access to WIC supermarkets; this was overwhelmingly (78 %) caused by lack of a personal vehicle.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

On the other hand, she thinks neighborhood preference would have been «a good idea» at the campus Two Rivers is opening this fall in Trinidad, which she says is surrounded by low - income residents who lack access to a high - quality school.

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«Locally, we need to ask similar questions about why many residents of Detroit are unable to access healthy food on a daily basis in an area now considered to be a «food desert» due to its lack of food resources,» Dr. Deubel continued.

In Los Angeles, African - Americans are nearly twice as likely to die during a heat wave as the average resident, in part because they more often lack access to air conditioning.

These uninsured residents tend to lack access to the necessary follow - up care and treatment that is necessary for the chronically ill and often forego age - appropriate routine testing such as mammograms and colonoscopies.

Thousands of city residents either turn down group coverage or lack access to group health insurance.