Sentences with phrase «when urban poverty»
The Social Gospel rose out of the excesses of the Gilded Age in the 1880s, when urban poverty spread across America as immigrants crammed into filthy slums to work long hours in unsafe conditions.
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I had always been interested in the issue of urban poverty — when you live in New York City, it's impossible to ignore — but it looked like one of those social problems without a real solution.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has caused a stir when he suggested poverty is a «state of mind.»
When Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said that poverty was to a «large extent» only «a state of mind,» he was right, of course, just as pain is only a state of mind.
«The funny thing is, particularly in the urban center, the problems that are facing Syracuse are the problems that I face back home in the Bronx when we talk about education, when we talk about poverty — trying to lift families out of poverty and improve the education system,» Heastie said Tuesday morning, after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Miner.
People struggle to prioritise such risks when set against everyday concerns that are much more real and pressing, like poverty, hunger, air and water pollution, and urban congestion.
When you examine the lives of history's most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organize their... Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6000 people every year who struggle with poverty and homelessness.
Two childhood friends growing up in poverty in south Boston come under the influence of a local crime boss, only to strike out on their own when he is caught and imprisoned by the F.B.I. Despite the marketing that features explosions and SWAT teams galore (neither of which actually appear in the film) What Doesn't Kill You is a character - driven drama set in the world of petty urban crime.
Perhaps even more common (particularly for White teachers in poorer, often urban areas) is treating our students as inspiration or poverty porn when talking to other White people.
When I graduated from college, I stayed in touch with a graduate professor but did not maintain contact with most other professors, as most had teaching experience in the suburbs, not in an urban, high - poverty school like the one where I secured my first teaching position.
Pratt Center was founded in 1963, when graduate planning students and faculty at Pratt Institute partnered with community organizations to address urban poverty by empowering local residents to participate in the official planning processes that affected their communities.
When figurative, the work was influenced by comix, and it reflected the grittiest parts of urban life lived in post-student poverty.»