Sutton's focus is community-based participatory research and design with a special emphasis on low-income and minority youth and other disenfranchised populations.

The Aloha Inn and Arion Court were, at their inception, revolutionary concepts for implementing democratic decision-making and self-governance among traditionally disenfranchised populations.

It is unfortunate that this expired contract is now unfairly used to support an agenda that will ultimately harm a severely disenfranchised population.

There was controversy over the fact that the population figures are based on residents, not citizens, resulting in countries with larger disenfranchised immigrant populations gaining more under Lisbon than those with smaller ones.

"First, of all philanthropy only 2.45 percent goes to organizations devoted to social change or for organizations addressing disadvantaged, disempowered or disenfranchised populations," he said.

The Chinese government, however, apparently sees a healthy political discourse itself as "harmful information" - dangerously pornographic to the minds of a disenfranchised population.

Emergency psychiatry has involved the evaluation and treatment of unemployed, homeless and other disenfranchised populations.

"It makes good economic sense and good health sense to re-enfranchise this disenfranchised population," Mr. Lewis said.

The 1903 state charter also required a library be opened for the disenfranchised African-American population of Charlotte.

The goal of these clinics was to provide access points to health and social services to medically underserved and disenfranchised populations.