Promise Zone Program

Will Obama’s ‘promise zone’ program really help the poor?, By Elizabeth Barber, January 9, 2014, Christian Science Monitor: “President Obama has selected the first places slated to receive a broad package of aid to relieve poverty as part of his ‘promise zone’ program, an initiative to help poor individuals by boosting the geographic area in which they live. The five zones, to be announced by the president Thursday, include slices of San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and southeastern Kentucky, as well as the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma…”