Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Spot.us has already funded stories where journalists have investigated things like the local police department, poverty issues, and city budgetary issues.

位于旧金山湾区的Spot . us已经资助记者进行了一系列的调查，像当地警局问题，贫困问题，以及市政预算问题。

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Rural Brazil, with its malnutrition and absence of clean water and clinics, is an area of old poverty and Bolsa familia has been wonderfully effective in fighting it.

巴西农村地区存在着营养不良、缺乏干净水和诊所这些旧的贫困问题，Bols a familia在解决此类问题上发挥了惊人的效果。

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This is because in America, the definition of a food desert is any census area where at least 20% of inhabitants are below the poverty line and 33% live more than a mile from a supermarket.

这是因为在美国，任何普查区中，只要其20%以下的居民低于贫困线，33%的居民于距离超市一英里之外居住，那么该地区即被定义为食品沙漠。

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Political analyst Zadeh says state discrimination against ethnic Baluchis and the poverty of the area, also a center of drug smuggling, give Jundallah more than enough support from the local population.

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Christian organisations in south Shropshire have said they are worried about rising poverty in the area.

BBC: South Shropshire poverty 'on the rise'

Of course, there's still poverty in the area and a lot of all the other stuff that people associate, you know, with a metropolitan area.

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Mr Martin also questioned whether the Good Friday Agreement was delivering in real terms for people living in Northern Ireland and highlighted the issue of child poverty as an area where things were getting worse instead of better.

BBC: Micheal Martin