The ensuing investigation takes the detectives from swanky Boston hotels to housing projects in the poorest ghettos of Dorchester.

He has spent much of his political life trying to find ways of helping the poor and uplifting urban ghettos.

I want to be able to help people in poor, black ghettos like Trenton on a larger scale, through public policy.

She was also annoyed with his characterizations of Trenton as "a poor black ghetto."

For the ghetto poor, Mr. Ellwood has no sweeping solutions to offer.

During his Senate campaigns, Mr. Sharpton began talking about having seen white neighborhoods upstate as needy as the poorest ghetto.

What's unclear is whether in the long run "ghetto poor" would fare any better.

She was born in the younger, poorer khepri ghetto of Creekside, a grubby stain in the northwest of the city.

Lincoln claims that he wanted to experience life in a poor ghetto.

Disease flourishes in the poor, filthy ghettos of the country.