The pattern of future growth may, relatively speaking, favour today's low-income groups more than the better-off.
This allows for Facebook to reach many low-income groups in countries like India that cannot afford a laptop, smartphone or tablet.
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And, within those countries, targeting the populations most in need -- often rural, low-income and marginalized groups.
In addition to looking at personal characteristics such as age and relationship status, the researchers divided the countries into high- and middle-to-low income groups according to average household earnings.
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"I have no doubt that Prof Ebdon has the qualities and determination to help those students from low-income and under-represented groups to secure the places in higher education that their attainments and potential show they deserve, " he concluded.
Among the organizations that Wells Fargo supports: Opportunity Finance Network, a coalition of nonprofit groups that offer banking services in low-income communities.
Low-income families, Native Americans, undocumented immigrants and some religious groups are exempt.
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The issue for Asian-Americans is, because there is a high median family income, this issue is it's harder to get the resources and the services to low income Asian-American communities and, also, when you break it down by specific ethnic groups, the Hmong, the Bangladeshi, they have poverty rates that rival the African-American poverty rate.
Local attorneys and nonprofit legal services groups say the intricacies of Sandy-related claims seem to fall heaviest on low-income residents and those who don't speak English.
Researchers have used it when studying how to create closeness between individuals of different ethnic backgrounds and between groups that often distrust each other (for example, police officers and residents of low-income neighborhoods).
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China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.1%, to a six-week low, after the country's National Bureau of Statistics indicated net income from China's largest industrial groups dropped 5.2% in the first two months of the year.
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