The charge raises $160 million a year for hospitals, many of them in distressed urban areas.
The money for construction comes from a consortium of banks that lends in distressed areas.
The government had in fact scheduled it as a 'distressed' area.
A second component offers tax incentives to increase investment in distressed areas.
He developed programs that gave incentives to businesses willing to locate in distressed areas.
"If there ever was a time to help these distressed areas and reform social policy, it's now."
These were seen as the two key ways of "energizing community capitalism in distressed areas".
Because of poverty and other social ills, kids in distressed areas undoubtedly need more, rather than less, service from their public libraries.
Children in distressed areas need every mite of education society can muster.
We have focused especially on the most distressed areas because we cannot leave anyone behind.