Mayor R. Rex Parris has contended for years that the area has been treated as a "dumping ground" for the poor of Los Angeles County.
It has a proud and tortuous history of race; it was the first city in New York State to elect a black mayor, and it is a place that, some say, became a dumping ground for the poor from other Westchester communities.
My teaching experience convinced me that accessible and appropriate health and education services are absolutely necessary on the ground for the poor of the world to escape grinding poverty.
"We truly are living through a tale of two Britains; while those at the top of the tree may be benefiting from the green shoots of economic recovery, life on the ground for the poorest is getting tougher".
BAGHDAD — The ugly daily fight for ground in the poor Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City unfolded Saturday at a small mosque next door to a hospital, damaging the hospital and a number of its ambulances, and near a group of children who were wounded as they gathered tin cans to sell for salvage.
Her mother, who retired as a lawyer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Washington, is now a volunteer lawyer for Common Ground Community, a nonprofit housing provider for the poor and homeless in New York.
The popular church, formed of communities that grounded their political and social activism for the poor in Scripture, was once virtually the only nonviolent voice speaking out against the government during the war.
The center, completed earlier this year, is hardly the Superdome, the degrading New Orleans dumping ground for the city's poor during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Clara long ago converted the barbershop into a kitchen for the poor, proudly offering soup "prepared on holy ground".
A peculiar phenomenon of engaging insurance intermediaries for government funded health insurance schemes for the poor, not usually found globally, is gaining ground in India.
