... , and jobs diminish. Efforts to rebuild our nation's inner cities cannot move forward. Communities without insurance are communities without hope. Research studies have clearly demonstrated that African Americans receive inferior health care due to racism. Sara Rosenbaum, director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University reported: When you take black and white Americans and exactly the same ... situation like being hospitalized for a heart attack and having the same insurance, the chance that the black patient will get the advanced care is much less that i...

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Even though there are many different cultures and ethnic groups in the world, many of those people may face the same problems. According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individuals, our social world, or our physical world" (Leon-Guerrero, 2015). There ... the homeless and people who have a roof over their head but cannot afford healthy food. Another huge support for families living in poverty is Medicaid. Medicaid is a state and federal insurance plan for families livin...

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... , and work to destruct the reasons why homelessness exists in the first place: "Advocates for the homeless cite systemic reasons for homelessness, such as an inadequate or failing mental health policy, the recent recession, high unemployment rates, and the disappearance of low-income housing."" Agencies against homelessness such as Raising the Roof (Canada's only national charity) and Habitat for Humanity are ... you'd have to add on their children and other dependents and consider how many total homeless people that could be. For the most part, these unemployed are either receiving Empl...

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... crime statistics continue to rise. Women and children are becoming the poorest of the poor. As of 1985, approximately 35 million American citizens did not have any kind of medical insurance coverage. Race riots have occurred in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago. Black and Hispanic people live in urban ghettos that resemble areas of the Third World ... is applied we need to recognize that "Neither blaming the victim nor compassion will end homelessness. Structural transformation is required, and this will not occur without major modifications in public policy- (...

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