Plagued by high unemployment and poverty, the neighborhood adopted a plan in 1996 to reinvigorate itself.
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Abandoned buildings, high unemployment and poverty continue to devastate the city.
Apartheid's brutal legacy, high unemployment and poverty, gaping social inequality, the absence of a father in nearly two-thirds of black homes, and the abuse of alcohol and drugs are all cited.
Mr Menem and the Peronists are throwing up defences against attacks on the regime's obvious weaknesses, Argentina's high unemployment and excessive poverty.
This has led to comparisons with Appalachia, which has also relied on a declining extractive industry (coal mining) and has suffered from high unemployment, poverty and a relatively unskilled workforce.
Despite poverty and high unemployment, issues of ethnicity and nationalism have dominated the election campaigns, says our correspondent.
But unemployment and poverty are high and life for many is hard.
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Egypt's economy continues to struggle, with widespread poverty, high unemployment and its vaunted tourism sector still sagging on the heels of the political unrest.
However, poverty remains widespread and unemployment high, particularly among Algeria's youth.
The iReporters describe a life in which many people in the North African nation are facing a daily battle against poverty, spiraling inflation and high unemployment.
Poverty and unemployment rates are particularly high among blacks, who make up 34% of the Delta's population.
Such indicators include March softening of U.S. manufacturing, persistent high unemployment especially among Millennials, a record number of Americans on food stamps and in poverty, up-and-down consumer confidence, and multi-trillion-dollar federal budget deficits.
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High rates of illiteracy and unemployment among the poor majority are partly ascribed to lack of educational opportunities due to poverty, lack of development in their communities and shortages of professional teachers.
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