In fact, the highest performing public school in all of Essex County, New Jersey -- a county that has both pockets of poverty and great affluence -- is a Newark charter school with a student population that is nearly entirely minority and with a significant percentage near or below the poverty line.
"You have areas of poverty and areas of great affluence and less of a middle".
Within America's great affluence, nearly 50 million people live in poverty, defined as income below $23,550 for a family of four.
He grew up in great affluence in Larchmont, New York, surrounded by servants and protected from any unsuitable contacts.
Poverty co-exists with great affluence and inequalities correlate with race.
It was not until he returned to California, the place of his youth, that he found great affluence.
He's basically referring to the way reputations in Washington can become slightly ruffled, but this is never something that accomplishes exclusion or shunning or shame or takes anyone off the path to great affluence.
Yet in this world of great affluence, and profligate spending on weapons and luxuries, we have 1.3 billion people living on less than $1 a day – more than half of them children.
There are dozens of hiking trails in Rio but only in recent years, as a result of greater affluence and expanding horizons, have locals really started taking advantage of them.
Survival rates also decreased with greater mean age at diagnosis, while it increased with higher mean proportion of younger (aged 15 64 years) women living in the HA, the latter possibly being an indicator of greater affluence.
It's an expression of longing, in part, for a glorious past, one in which the federal government played a less dominant role in the nation's economy; and for a moment in which markets, by themselves, functioned well enough to keep society on a trajectory of ever-greater affluence.
