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Is poverty a crime?  - One thing we know for sure: Poverty brings families scrutiny from child ... One in 30 American children does not have a regular place to call home.

Single Parent Families a major reason for poverty and crime : This is a major factor in the poverty and crime rate. Some suggest that the social acceptance of sex outside marriage is a reason for the single parent birth epidemic. That should not matter. It is true that today's society not only accepts sex outside ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Poverty doesn't cause crime — former gangster : "Austin was born in the poverty -stricken community of McGregor Gully in East Kingston but insists that poverty is no excuse for criminality. " Poverty is not a cause for crime. Many times I go to my bed hungry and I just hold that because I respect ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

It's a crime to automatically deny nursing certification  - The story of poverty in America is told by women and children. Nearly 70 percent of those who live on the economic fringes are young or female.

Officials praise themselves while crime, poverty gain ground Wake up, walk around, look at the crime, shopping carts, misery, drugs, guns and poverty . It is just a matter of time until the guns start going off in our community. Are we proud that 26 percent of our schoolchildren live in poverty ?

Family breakdown is the biggest issue America refuses to talk about - More and more children in America are growing up in broken homes and in a culture of toxic stress and violence. Most of these children will never commit a crime. But many will end up living in poverty . Suffering addiction. Or homelessness, or debt, or persistent unemployment – or a combination of these ...

Poverty is a real threat to the health of many American kids : And poor kids also are likely to become the poor parents of the future. Each year that we keep children in poverty costs the United States half a trillion dollars in lost productivity, poorer health and increased crime. Science Daily has reported on ...

Poverty and crime bring Honduras to its knees "The country presents a perfect storm: endemic poverty and notably fragile institutions buffeted by uncontrolled crime, aggravated by spillover from Mexico's drug war and a profound political crisis." Honduras is the world's murder capital, ...

Flint, Michigan: the story of a modern American city - Flint is a city long infamous for poverty, crime, and more recently the water .... Flint is at the frontline of so many important themes in America : poverty , ...

Poverty and education reform — and those caught in the middle : Camden, a small city across the river from Philadelphia, competes with Detroit and Youngstown, Ohio, for the nation's worst poverty and crime rates. Infant mortality in Camden is 16 percent, significantly more than the 6 percent nationally. ... The Hechinger Report

Probably blaming the poor for not staying home is a bit unfair. ... as racial inequality, America also has enormous social problems, crime and poverty. View article...

Are hate crimes really on the rise in America ? Here's a guide to the data - There is no definitive federal data source for hate crimes in the US . ... In the weeks since Donald Trump's victory in the US election, there have been ... The Southern Poverty Law Center, and Shaun King's hate-crime-mapping project.

... for allowing Baltimore to descend into decades of poverty and crime. ... “It's not just Baltimore, the worst place for a black person to live in America is ... View article...

It also pushes the problems in Central America, where many people are fleeing poverty or crime, on to Mexico. The agreement to expand  View article...

Child migrants 'urgent humanitarian' issue  - ampant crime and poverty across Central America and a desire to reunite with parents or other relatives is thought to be driving many of the young ...

Economic growth is central to easing the constraints in almost every sphere of society that reproduce inequality . View article...

This is a sequel of sorts to Hinton's 2016 book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.” There ... View article...

Their problems are crime, or drugs or poverty, the doubters say, anything but ... a home is something that's unfairly denied to many African Americans. View article...