The phrase "struggling communities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a group of people who are facing economic hardship or other difficulties. For example, "The government is focusing on providing aid to struggling communities in the wake of the pandemic."
But struggling communities have sometimes been undone by tornadoes.
The loss of jobs, Mr. Milan said, would have devastating effects on struggling communities.
"Leaving the EU would liberate us to invest in public services and support struggling communities.
"If struggling communities don't preserve their architecture," Mr. Fetterman said, "there's no chance of any resurgence down the line".
Another third would be invested in small businesses in struggling communities, five- or ten-fold what Goldman announced last week.
Then, in 2010, the S.B.A. shuttered a separate loan program, Community Express, that focused on providing small loans to borrowers in struggling communities.
But the surrounding suburbs, with their pockets of educated, affluent whites alongside struggling communities of blue-collar whites, are expected to be a battleground.
Where markets fail, philanthropy needs to go beyond mere charitable hand-outs to mobilise the skills and expertise of successful entrepreneurs behind struggling communities.
They warn that among other pernicious effects, it is likely to accelerate the migration of teachers to urban districts out of struggling communities from Maine to Alaska.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas visited Sedan in October and said afterward that she considered this "very much a model" for other struggling communities.
In the imagination of many liberal New Yorkers, private universities like New York and Columbia are often at odds with struggling communities.
