Hip-hop is a culture that emerged amid urban deprivation.
And for all the concern about segregation, this is the first UK government in 40 years that has no strategic focus on areas of urban deprivation.
In short, unemployment must be considered as the primary agent causing and maintaining urban deprivation.
Twenty years later, racial tensions persist, social programs have been slashed and the Gordian knot of urban deprivation has yet to be cut.
The region suffers high unemployment, rural as well as urban deprivation, and in many areas schools struggle to keep children on beyond the age of 16.
After World War One the government responded to urban deprivation with a massive programme of council house building.
The first passage should read: "Hip-hop is a culture that emerged amid urban deprivation.
This initiative has proved to be a useful weapon in tackling urban deprivation.
I want to ensure that the general Structural Funds are used to a significant extent to address the problem of urban deprivation.
A few islands of media and City money, in a sea of urban deprivation, don't social justice make.