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Gun Violence Lowers Academic Achievement Especially for Black Children
Examining the troubling increase in gun violence in schools and its detrimental impact on children. Discover the need for immediate action.
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Structural Determinants of Health: Hospitals’ Unequal Capital Investments Drive Health Inequities
Discover how the structural determinants of health inequity in the US can lead to disparities in healthcare access and outcomes.
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Subsidized Employment Can Reduce Crime and Gun Violence Among Black Men
Economic hardship, racial segregation, social isolation, joblessness, and other forms of underinvestment in communities contribute to high violent crime rates. Socioeconomic disadvantage is particularly concentrated in Black neighborhoods.
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Racial Segregation and Gun Violence in Black Communities
What distinguishes the United States from other rich countries is not freedom, but firearms. No other rich country has a firearm homicide rate anywhere near as high as the United States.
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Poverty Correlates with the Recent Increase in Gun Violence
Eliminating poverty will bring numerous social benefits to US society, and one of them might be a significant reduction in the country’s extremely high rate of gun violence.
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Black People Need Better Options than the Morgue or Mass Incarceration
Rather than the gun lawlessness promoted by the extremists on the Supreme Court, Black Americans must insist on gun safety laws and an end to mass incarceration.
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Black Children are Disproportionately Harmed by Extremist Gun Rights Policies in the US
The US is a toxic country as far as gun violence is concerned, particularly for Black people. Only when US politicians are committed to common sense gun safety policies will we see any change.
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The Link Between Gun Violence and Economic Hardship in Black Communities
If the US wants to reduce gun violence, it is important that to address the profound jobs crisis among Black men.
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How US Guns Destabilize Latin America and Fuel the Refugee Crisis
A book review of Ioan Grillo’s Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.
