While once seen as basically a very poor community, the stateside Puerto Rican community has become more economically, politically and culturally complex than ever.
He lived and worked in a poor community and he noticed many residents used material from old billboards for roofing, because it was waterproof and mildew-proof.
But Congress concentrated on the poor farming community, plagued by droughts and subsequent debts.
Coolidge told the philanthropists that he was grateful to the group for investing in their own community chest and for paying, when they could, for the poor or weak in their community.
It would cut farm subsidies, Medicare, student aid, housing subsidies for the poor, and funding for community development grants.
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He started at a city job building neighborhood projects such as community centers for the poor in Little Havana.
It is the story of a rural community, proud but poor, struggling to reconcile itself with an enormous economic opportunity that comes at an enormous cost.
Five years ago, he had been on a team overhauling Ahmedabad in India, where city services were so poor members of the peaceful Jain community were threatening violence.
There needs to be more community health clinics where the poor can go get health care.
He exposed frames of film in two places a wealthy resort community in Florida and a poor Indian reservation in South Dakota and then put his camera through an airport X-ray machine.
"We have the worst male life expectancy in the country, the third worst female life expectancy in the country so we have a very poor quality of health in the surrounding community, " he said.
The history of finance is also a history of inclusion and economic empowerment, and many of its success stories started as social innovations: from cooperative banks for farmers to community banks for the urban poor, all the way to microcredit for the bottom billion today.
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"When I first moved here there was a sense of community, even though we were poor, " he said.
Which is a pretty poor showing for such a pillar of the community, such a poster child for responsible capitalism.
What do you say to the poor and grassroots communities that benefit from these community block grants, as they also supported this President when he was then candidate Obama, as they believed he felt their pain?
What the poor that we got, people in our community they are crying out for help and we don't have anybody other than the NAACP to come to their defense to try to help them in any way that we possibly can.
Steven Htet, associate professor of biology at Northern Virginia Community College, sought to invite a poor or elderly couple to dinner at Noma, while traveling to Norway to see the Aurora Borealis.
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Vincent Tan: The main causes I support include community causes (provide aid for the poor, children, elderly folks), health causes (provide support and financial aid for treatment of diseases like AIDS, kidney ailments, cancer, free acupuncture centre), education (providing scholarships for education, and free education for underprivileged children and youth), environmental preservation (protection and preservation of coral growth), support and promotion of local performing arts, and humanitarian assistance for disaster relief.
Many inhabitants, former residents of poor, charmless towns, also find a sense of community, of building something new.
The small scattered community of Oscarey was a mixture now of poor and better-off: besides the remnants of the estate families, there were newcomers.
The 32 elected community school boards, which were especially weak in poor neighbourhoods and often corrupt, will go.
They also heeded warnings that changing the system would hit Austria's social sector, which depends on conscientious objectors who serve as ambulance drivers, attendants at senior citizens' homes and in other community jobs that are hard to fill because of poor pay.
He graduated from Columbia University and then became a community organizer in Chicago, focusing on living conditions in poor neighborhoods.
While life in Braunstone isn't perfect - community spirit doesn't solve everything and poverty and poor housing can't just be wished away, the transformation is marked.
When it last took in poor countries (Spain and Portugal in 1986), the European Community, as it was then called, was not a single market for goods, services, labour and capital.
"The cartels have been able to recruit tens of thousands of killers in part because poor neighborhoods have been systematically abandoned over decades and lack sufficient schools, community centers and security -- in short they lack opportunity, " the International Crisis Group said in a recent report on Mexico's cartel violence.
Ringing the alarm on the stagnating progress towards reaching universal primary education, the United Nations' Special Envoy for Global Education Mr Gordon Brown, urged that every failing country should draw up an action plan to address obstacles to schooling, from child labour and early marriage to poor sanitation and lack of facilities in rural areas, which the international community should come into support.
The passage of the federal Community Reinvestment Act in the 1970s encouraged banks to build branches in poor areas.
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"The thinking generally about the problems we're trying to address in these proposals with community hospitals is that some of them are very old, and they have poor fabric, " he told BBC Radio Wales.
David Berenbaum, executive vice president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a nonprofit organization that works to improve credit access in poor communities, said he has known some real estate agents to look out for borrowers.
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