Sentence examples for poverty communities from inspiring English sources

In high poverty communities, 61.1% of girls were given the first shot in the series, compared with 52.4% in low poverty communities, according to the American Association for Cancer Research's report, the first to look at geography in relation to HPV vaccination rates.

He always believed in the potential of young people to make our country better the potential of young teachers and leaders and, most importantly, the potential of children growing up in high poverty communities.

The other big problem we see in poverty communities is that kids have the attitude 'here come the cops so let's get out of here.' There are lots of arrests for aiding and abetting where the kid at most may be guilty of not wanting to get involved — refusing to talk when the police want them to talk openly in the street.

"I've been doing research in low-income communities for a long time, and I've written extensively about the experiences of women in high poverty communities and the risk of sexual exploitation, but this was new," said Susan Popkin, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and lead author of the report, Impossible Choices.

Bethan Jenkins, Plaid Cymru spokeswoman for housing, poverty, communities and steel, said: "When we get to the point where nearly a quarter of all people in Wales are experiencing poverty, this should as a massive wakeup call to the entire political establishment, both here in Cardiff and in Westminster.

On average, three quarters of the nation's young people graduate high school -- but in high poverty communities the likelihood of graduating with your class is often a fifty-fifty proposition.

They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.

This article presents pilot data on the effectiveness of "TJ" with a sample of 208 third-grade students from an urban district designated "high risk" due to poverty, community violence, and below average reading abilities.

It's a poverty community.

As a system, we focused on their faults and failures, completely overlooking how decades of poverty, community violence and our over-sexualized media helped to shape them.

An online publication on key issues of interest to the child poverty community of practice.