Some housing advocates say the decline in low-income housing in Galveston has reduced the city's African-American population.
' So there is a skills deficit not just in low-income communities in America today when it comes to marriage.
The transfer station has been a flash point in Manhattan politics since Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed reopening a dormant site over a decade ago as part of an overhaul of the city's trash-removal system, which had relied largely on trucks and facilities concentrated in low-income neighborhoods in boroughs outside Manhattan.
This was a challenge since seventy percent of the inland waterway system is in rural areas, in low-lying valleys like Pittsburgh, or in low-income neighborhoods not well served by the Internet.
Workers who retain their jobs will be higher productivity workers not low-wage workers in low- income families.
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Businesses in low-income countries struggle with twice the burden of regulation as those in high-income countries.
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The award-winning Police Homeowner Loan Program offers police officers low-interest (4%), short-term (20 year) financing with no down payment for the purchase of rehabilitated houses in low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in Columbia.
President Bush's boldest policy move on health care reform so far could be the veto he used this morning to block a bipartisan bill reauthorizing and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers free or low-cost health insurance to children in low-income families.
And when they are grown and stuck in low-income jobs, this will further handcuff states in terms of raising funds.
Companies like Whole Foods and Novo Nordisk (who created an innovative model to profitably provide diabetes drugs in low income countries like China) are my heroes in leading the way.
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An avalanche of Medicaid provider paperwork, high rates of missed appointments in low-income populations and no incentives to set up practices in inner cities or low-density rural areas also contribute to making Medicaid services untenable for traditional dentistry.
Initial interest payments may seem low in relation to income, but because inflation is also low it will not erode the real burden of debt as swiftly as it used to.
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As the study suggests, physical inactivity is more common in countries of high income than in those of low income.
Its share in Rural China is extremely low, if probably non-existent, given the low income levels in those regions.
This program will provide extra help to middle- and high school students who fall behind in reading and math, expand Advanced Placement programs in low-income schools, and invite math and science professionals from the private sector to teach part-time in our high schools.
Child labourers in the Philippines, low-income black children in the US and low-caste girls in India all suffer very different educational problems which call for adapted solutions and policies.
The program was particularly important in areas where low-income families are living in difficult conditions, said Traci Lester, executive director of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York, a literacy nonprofit group that signed up children for the program.
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These subgrantees serve more than 100 cities located in 31 states and the District of Columbia and are pursuing a wide range of program initiatives, from rural healthcare initiatives in Kentucky to employment programs for former offenders in California to workforce collaboratives in New Orleans to college preparation programs for low-income students in North Carolina.
That's especially true among low-income black students enrolled in the most at-risk, low-income schools.
Its goal was to reduce discrimination against people in low-income neighborhoods by FDIC banks.
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Golinkin, 56, set up his first clinics in 2005, many in low-income areas around Houston.
The report, produced by the New Policy Institute, found that two million children lived in low-income, working households.
The city intends to offer the voluntary program to children in low-income families, as determined by newborn screening assessments.
And it indicated that health inequalities have continued to worsen, with premature deaths becoming geographically concentrated in low-income areas.
Inclusion of breastfeeding support services in the Affordable Care Act should help to bolster rates in low-income communities, Krugman says.
Wages for the poor and low income in Brazil have risen by more than 40% over the last few years.
These are cheaper and more sustainable options for governments in low-income countries for the basic, off-patent medicines that are needed.
Nicknamed the "Donald Trump of the Tropics" in the Miami press, Perez started his career as a developer in low-income housing.
The greatest consumption of these high-calorie meals is in low-income neighborhoods where electronic welfare cards are accepted at fast food restaurants.
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Among the organizations that Wells Fargo supports: Opportunity Finance Network, a coalition of nonprofit groups that offer banking services in low-income communities.
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