The diversity of minority cultures present in poverty-stricken neighborhoods prevents the formation of strong social bonds and leaves inhabitants uninterested in maintaining positive community relationships.

A display recounts the national attention received from living conditions in Sugar Ditch, a poverty-stricken neighborhood in the city limits of Tunica.

Today, Central has less than one-fifth of its 1940 population numbers, and is demographically a largely homogenous poverty-stricken, African American neighborhood.

In a city with a booming downtown that looks out over poverty-stricken neighborhoods, the projects have given new optimism to business leaders.

This was a poverty-stricken neighborhood.

After sunset, a wave of looting and arson swept through poverty-stricken neighborhoods.

East Oakland continues to have high unemployment and dropout rates, and its most poverty-stricken neighborhoods continue on a cycle of despair and apathy.

How much lasting effect all this will have on the poverty-stricken neighborhood remains to be seen, but the beginnings are promising.

He was lucky, he thought; he had had two concerned, working parents while many children in poverty-stricken neighborhoods lived with only a single parent or some other relative.

In Baltimore, the decision noted, 97 percent of public housing for families went to black families, mostly in poverty-stricken neighborhoods.