Sure, some excellent charter schools have really stellar records with kids in poor areas.
In poor areas of Chicago, residents have set up gated communities to ward off crime.
The sub-post office is often the last business left in poor areas after other shops close.
The closure of branches means that access is becoming more of a problem, particularly in poor areas.
Intestinal worms are estimated to affect up to two billion people around the world, mainly in poor areas.
KIPP, America's largest chain of charter schools, shows that non-profit organisations can grow and succeed in poor areas.
The passage of the federal Community Reinvestment Act in the 1970s encouraged banks to build branches in poor areas.
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CDFIs do an important job in providing finance for projects in poor areas.
She has heard from around 450 groups, nearly half of them teachers keen to improve education in poor areas.
The Community Reinvestment Act, for example, requires banks to invest a certain portion of their lending in poor areas.
One idea is to arrange summer schools for able children in poor areas.
He promised to ease social frustration by accelerating programmes for urban renewal and for helping young people in poor areas.
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Tax credits for those investing in poor areas, another idea borrowed from the United States, are also favoured by the chancellor.
Kids really would pick up a trumpet in poor areas and learn it - and without those kids a culture dies.
But although the secondary market for mortgages is well developed, there is nothing comparable for small business loans in poor areas.
And neither is it likely to impress Labour supporters in poor areas.
Again he disagrees, claiming that children in poor areas of Britain often have nothing to distract them, which he says leads to anti-social behavior.
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Parents in poor areas were offered the choice of transferring their children to wealthier schools, but capacity limits made many such requests impossible to grant.
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Many investors have an exaggerated fear of risk in poor areas.
And it is tackling the long-term causes of child poverty through policies aimed at pre-school children in poor areas, and a new programme designed to cut teenage pregnancy.
The bill provides more money for schools, particularly those in poor areas, but, unlike similar efforts in the past 40 years, it ties that money to progress in annual tests.
Worse, they say, there is too little emphasis on encouraging the sorts of private financial markets that would do more to spur investment in poor areas than any government programme.
The National Children's Bureau, a charity, argues that the curfew he envisages will be imposed mainly in poor areas where children have no place to go for safe, legitimate, activities.
But more important, there is now a precious opportunity to harness the momentum to eliminate syphilis to achieve something far more significant: a complete revamp of public-health services in poor areas.
Sir Michael also said any teacher who did not wish to act as a surrogate parent in poor areas to pupils who lacked support at home did not deserve a salary increase.
As I say, the actual aim of abolishing national pay bargaining is not so that wages can be reduced in poor areas: it is so that they can be increased in rich areas.
Ms. Warner recounts what life was like in poor areas before the introduction of vitamins into food substances, the fortification of white flour and milk, and the widespread availability of items like orange juice: Many people suffered from rickets (because of insufficient vitamin D and calcium), scurvy (vitamin C), pellagra (vitamin B3) and beriberi (vitamin B1).
Other complaints have forced the government to provide clean water and electricity in some poor areas.
This is hard to curb because nurses do not want to work in poor remote areas, since their children cannot get a good education there.
Most of those without electricity are in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where power generation is about a tenth of where it is in other poor areas.
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