Cost of living's increased, employment prospects are low, access to university is becoming ever harder.
"Low-income people have low access to decision makers," Waterford says.
Tulsa, a city of nearly 400,000, is considered one of the nation's worst food deserts (places with officially "low access" to supermarkets).
With the high cost of data and low access to high-speed internet, the app isn't popular in India's rural communities.
Even in the poorest section of society one-in-three Tanzanian households owns a mobile phone, offering a targeted communication channel to pregnant women in rural areas with low access to conventional media.
Using Transport for London (TfL) and national government data, Shawcross concludes there is a strong link between deprivation and densely populated London neighbourhoods with low access to the public transport network.
Gonorrhea rates are now highest in the South, probably because of high poverty and low access to quality health and preventive care, said Dr. Ron Valdiserri, an official at the disease control agency.
But over the following decades, liberals became more focussed on the systems that perpetuate economic inequality — subpar schools, low access to healthcare, and, yes, high incarceration rates — and conservatives began to concentrate on government spending.
Formerly a teacher in Brownsville, Brooklyn, which has high poverty and low access to fresh food, Ms. Lloyd said many of the children she had taught had splurged on large sodas at the movies to share.
Doctors argue that reimbursement rates are so low, access to basic mammograms is in jeopardy.
Poor households and individuals often have low access to food, a necessary condition for food security.
