While Congress is locked in stalemate, across the Potomac river one of America's poorest areas remains unseen and unheard

There are two Washington DCs. There is the DC of the White House and Congress, of politicians locked in ideological battle over the debt crisis. And there is the DC that is seldom heard or seen, the neighbourhoods that are among the poorest in America, where the debt row is seen as irrelevant.

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