The goal of this initiative is to reach beyond the transformation of housing within poverty-stricken neighborhoods, treating communities as viable and sustainable entities capable of growth and ...

In our seven county area, $6.9 billion in wage earnings has disappeared from paychecks over the last ten years due to job loss and pay cuts, according to federal wage figures complied by George ...

This is part of a series of columns. Out of 20 kindergartners living in a poverty-stricken Jacksonville neighborhood, only one child, statistically, will escape poverty in their lifetime.

Police have stepped up patrols, and residents hope life can return to normal soon in these high-crime and poverty-stricken areas — including one immigrant neighborhood known as "The 3,000." ...

They cite several possible explanations why students' performance did not improve when their families moved to less poverty-stricken neighborhoods in the Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles ...

The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods. And, more significantly, poor heterosexuals in those neighborhoods were twice as likely ...

The poverty stricken are routinely thought to reside ... Or that only 10% of the poor live in high poverty neighborhoods? Or that, according the U.S. Census Bureau, two thirds of the poor classify ...

Getting a football scholarship from LSU was my way out of a poverty stricken neighborhood that was full of violence. All it took was one day on the LSU campus to realize just how special this ...

Poverty-stricken neighborhoods are notorious for dropout mills and school-to-prison pipelines. Noted facts regarding how the brain is affected by poverty (Chronic Stress): The hippocampus is a ...