At one point, some 15 years ago, the city wanted to designate the neighborhood a poverty area, Father Gorman said.

And even the 24 percent who live in extreme poverty areas are not all poor.

He added, "In poverty areas, the remnant of the health system that once was no longer exists."

They border poverty areas, but they're in two different worlds.

He set in motion a long school day program in development towns and poverty stricken areas.

To practice in a poverty area under these circumstances requires an untenable choice between starvation and bankruptcy.

Extreme poverty areas are those where 40 percent or more of the people are below the poverty line.

Many of the new poor were blacks in poverty areas, according to the experts.

The oldest sections of the borough began to become poverty stricken areas.

Msinga is a poverty stricken area with few economic resources and little economic activity.