Sentence examples for less affluent regions from inspiring English sources

New York's law would raise the wage from $9 to $15 in New York City in three years, with lower ceilings phased in for less affluent regions upstate, where the cost of living is lower.

The pond systems have been used as a popular alternative treatment method in remote and less affluent regions since the 1970s (Wang et al. 2001).

It became known as the "firewall letter", because it called on the provincial government to "build firewalls around Alberta" to stop the federal government from redistributing its wealth to less affluent regions.

Living in the less affluent area was associated with higher lifetime rates of alcohol use [ 53].

As an alumnus-interviewer in a less-affluent region of New Jersey, I meet each year a number of young people who come from families of very limited means Sometimes the interview is the first time they hear of the no-loan policy, and I watch their eyes light up as their minds wrap around the idea that a Princeton education has just become more than just a dream but a real possibility.

The foundation program was intended to help close the digital divide by giving people in less affluent and remote regions free access to the Internet.

"We suspect that similar barriers facing children from less affluent families and from regions of the country hit by adverse economic shocks have worsened in the last few decades," the economists write.

Partly this reflects lack of urban forestry expertise in the less affluent countries of the region where there are only few opportunities for urban forestry training and education.

It says that the area is "a land apart from the rest of England – more remote, less affluent", and it describes the region's distinctive accent as "often impenetrable to outsiders".

Thirty-five yeafterftheirheireleasese, Japanese-American internees placed in the poorest camp, Arkansas' Rohwer Relocation Center, earned 17percentt less than those placed in more affluent regions, such as Heart Mountain, Wyo., (pictured).

The stratification was used because people living in the southern region of the city were less affluent and exposed to more damage as compared to those living in the northern part of the city.