When a teenager from East Baltimore was asked to describe his neighborhood, he spoke of “big rats going around in people’s trash, vacant houses full of squatters and needles on the ground.” A young woman in New Delhi, asked the same question, described the dirt and the “dirty water found lying on the roads,” while a young man in Ibadan, a large city in Nigeria, spoke of the smell of urine and streets “littered with paper and other refuse.”
All three teenagers live in the poorest neighborhoods in their communities and were surveyed as part of the “WAVE” study, a global research project that examines the well-being of adolescents in vulnerable environments around the world. Led by Dr. Kristen Mmari, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, the survey assessed health challenges faced by 2,400 15- to 19-year-olds from impoverished areas in Baltimore, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Ibadan and New Delhi, as well as their perceptions of their environments.
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Baltimore is. democrat city right? Maryland is a far left leaning state right? The taxes are ridiculous in the Socialist Republik of Maryland? And this is news because Demorats ran a city into the ground?
ReplyDeleteReally and check out the demographics. It ain't no Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore.
DeleteLife is what we make of it.
ReplyDeleteSitting around while feeding off the scraps of redistribution, content to never escaping?
Blaming others for their lack of initiative? I have no sympathy. This is an endless cycle of misery. And it's spilled over into the middle and upper classes because of state run indoctrination. Life is disposable (easy abortion), life is a burden.
(John 3:16 !!!)
However, this report is a "crisis" for politicians to justify more revenue flowing from productive people's pockets to the endless black hole.
Every employer we've spoken to has the same problem we've had for years, finding employees who WANT To work, who aren't afraid of getting dirty, who don't 'game the system' or try to steal from employers, because they are 'rich", and never appreciate the opportunity to learn on the job training (rather than spending 100K on worthless piece of paper)
However, this report is a "crisis" for politicians to justify more revenue flowing from productive people's pockets to the endless black hole.
DeleteYup and there are almost the same percentage of whites on welfare as blacks these days. In 2002 when Dixieland was being redone and there was a problem with help for the contractor, he told me that as long as you had nothing in your name, even if you were young and healthy, a simple declaration of I can't find a job would get you about $2,500 a month in benefits of all sorts. No more welfare, relief as it was originally intended would be a restart, but with a time limit and minimum $ to get you by.
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appreciate the opportunity to learn on the job training
The only way to go. I tell all to go for a trade and don't join the services these days.
I'm guessing they didn't measure stuff that really matters, like access to clean water to drink, access to unlimited healthy food, childhood vacinations, and freedom from mosquito-borne diseases. You, know... stuff that kills you before you reach 12.
ReplyDeleteinstead they pick some useless, sunjective unmeasurable things like "social cohesion".
Good point.
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