Sentence examples for poverty cities from inspiring English sources

I think if you care about poverty, cities like Milwaukee, Buffalo, Detroit, Gary [in] Indiana, have a big story to tell.

But Clyde Bellecourt, a co-founder of the American Indian Movement who lives in Minneapolis and continues to be involved in a number of social organizations in the southern part of the city, where most of the American Indian population lives, said that despite the poverty, cities tend to provide Native Americans with greater opportunities.

In this context, it is extremely important to understand the different urban rural trends in poverty reduction, as when it comes to poverty, cities and countryside remain two worlds apart.15 Table 6 Geographic profile of poverty in Latin America (2000 2013), region aggregate.

And when the scores are compared with the scores of the specific high-poverty cities or neighborhoods where the schools are located — in Newark, New Haven or the Bronx — it isn't even close: 86percentt of eighth-grade students at KIPP Academy scored at grade level in math this year, compared with 16percentt of students in the South Bronx.

In general, highest-poverty cities tend to be found in southern cities, low-poverty cities in the North, a trend mirrored at the state level.

That number is growing along with the city's poverty rate, city officials say.

In 2012, though, the UN decided to get to grips with poverty stats city by city.

THERE'S concentrated poverty in cities, too.

Jobs are critical for reducing poverty, making cities work, and providing youth with alternatives to violence.

QUESTION FROM JED: 6 topics, not one on education, race, immigration, poverty, crime, cities, the environment.

Brockerhoff, M. & Brennan, E. The poverty of cities in developing regions.