Sentences with phrase «urban poor lived»

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The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

If you have doubts, compare level of life of the poorest people in the an urban ghetto in USA vs. random poor worker or peasant in USSR who lived far from the center in late 1980s or 1960s (when people were not artificially subcidized by selling oil to the west as under Brezhnev).

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

Ultimately, this has led to a division in the urban population — with poor residents who can no longer afford to live in tsunami - safe locations on one side, and affluent residents on the other.

It led to profound changes in society, including greater population densities, new diseases, poorer health, social inequality, urban living, and ultimately, the rise of ancient civilizations.

His work expands the conversation about ethnic neighborhoods beyond the Chinatowns and other urban «enclaves,» where poor residents of similar ethnicity have often lived because they lacked other choices.

LIFESTYLE: not sleeping 8 hours or sleeping poorly; working too much; stress caused by relationships, work, family; no exercise or stress relief like enjoyable activities, meditation; living in a dense, urban area; environmental toxins or pollutants (including cleaning products, cosmetics) POOR DIGESTION: food that's not properly broken down causes GI irritation, which results in inflammation and leaky gut syndrome.

Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

African American students, students who qualify for free / reduced lunch (i.e. poor students), students living in relatively high - poverty areas, and students attending urban schools are all more likely to be investigated by Child Protective Services for suspected child maltreatment.

As a result of housing patterns, however, more poor and minority families live in urban areas.

His journey from poor urban schools, through the Ivy League, and onward to a life of economic mobility is made far more difficult than it needed to be.

The data now shows that teachers, under the pressure of needing to make enough of a living wage to support their own families, are moving from poor schools to non-poor schools... from high - minority to low - minority schools... from urban to suburban schools.

Despite the best intentions of philanthropists and politicians, big money and big data will not save urban education, as long as reform efforts are undemocratic and overlook the realities of poor children's lives.

It would breathe new life into thousands of urban Catholic schools, institutions that have a proud legacy of serving poor and minority students well, but that are at risk of near - extinction.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - Rio De Janeiro 2 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 3 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 4 - Managing the growing of Favelas 5 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography shop.

For more resources visit thisisgeography.co.uk Lesson sequence: 1 - An increasingly urban world 2 - Megacities 3 - Rio De Janeiro 4 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 5 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 6 - Managing the growing of Favelas 7 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography urban world 2 - Megacities 3 - Rio De Janeiro 4 - Social challenges in Rio De Janeiro 5 - Economic challenges in Rio De Janeiro 6 - Managing the growing of Favelas 7 - Planning for Rio De Janeiro poor The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Physical Landscape in the UK, The Living World and other Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography Urban Issues and Challenges modules also available on the This is Geography shop.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

However, Ms. Hoxby's research has shown that «creaming» can't explain the academic success of charter schools given that the typical urban charter student is a poor black or Hispanic kid living in a home with adults who possess below - average education credentials.

Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor.

His short fiction, which often explores the lives of the urban underclass and «working poor,» has appeared in journals such as the Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and Open City.

Puppy mills contribute to pet overpopulation, particularly in urban areas, and are known for their poor living conditions that lead to diseased animals often being sold to unsuspecting pet owners across the country.

By establishing this, the game establishes analogies not just to legally authorized castes that have existed historically, but [also] creates a metaphorical relation to class as a construct in real life, particularly as it relates to urban environs, where the rich live literally on top of the poor.

The term «Ashcan School» - first used in print in the book Art in America in Modern Times (1934) edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H Barr - refers to a loose - knit group of American painters active in New York (c.1900 - 15), whose works depicted scenes of everyday urban life in the city's poorer areas.

At Galerie Michael Janssen of Berlin, life - sized glass heads are filled with found objects and Theaster Gates, a Chicago performance artist and urban planner who takes a proactive approach to improving poor neighborhoods, is displaying two chalk board works that show his creative thought process at Kavi Gupta gallery.

The problem here is that for decades those affluent enough to live in nice areas away from environmental problems such as living near a power station, on inside heavily polluted inner - urban areas have simply done so, externalising the visual and environmental costs of their lifestyle on to people who are poorer than themselves.

The most affected populations are the urban poor — i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries — who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.

This brochure highlights that natural hazard or change in climate can seriously affect urban poor and result in the loss of basic services, damage or destruction to homes, loss of livelihoods, disease, disability, and loss of life.

As the latest IPCC report noted, «Poor people living in urban informal settlements, of which there are [already] about one billion worldwide, are particularly vulnerable to weather and climate effects.»

The World Health Organization reports that more than 80 per cent of people living in urban areas are exposed to poor - and dangerous - air quality.

This has led to pervasive environmental problems and health risks, especially for communities living adjacent to open waste dumps and for poor urban settlements without organized waste management systems.

The columnist, Charles Komanoff, notes that if New York still had poor air quality, like it did in the 1970s, then it would have been much harder to court investors and residents to invest in and live in polluted urban areas, particular in high end real estate.

It also has some significant environmental justice and urban quality of life benefits by reducing pollution at urban ports where many poor and working - class people live and work.

So 7 billion people mostly in urban areas living a quiet vegan existence, eating rice and beans - mushroom, herbs, and bean sprouts for flavoring and carefully managing the sewage - perhaps storing the methane, or perhaps the poor fools living not in the tropics could use it for heating in their well insulated homes to stave a coldest of nites.

«Less Educated» «While the Internet remains highly popular among those living in urban areas, usage is not penetrating rural regions where people are poorer and less educated,» Charles King, principal at Pund - IT, told the E-Commerce Times.

Healthcare access and the patterns of maternal health care utilization among poor and non-poor women living in urban areas in Portugal

Repeated mental health problems were additionally associated with experiencing brief or persistent poverty, low social support and a poor relationship with a partner as well as living in a large urban locality.

However, living in a geographically remote part of Scotland (more than 30 minutes» driving time from urban settlements of 10,000 people or more), did appear to increase the risk of a poor father - child relationship, irrespective of whether the family was living in a remote town or rural area.

This study also shows that poor children with fewer siblings, whose parents are more educated, with higher household income, and living in urban areas are more likely to complete secondary education and escape the poverty cycle.