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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope everyone in this discussion realizes that almost all of the problems facing poor inner city dwellers (i.e. African-Americans) are the same as rural whites - drugs, teenage births, obesity, dependence on welfare,  etc... only for rural whites we seem to blame it all on a lack of jobs and not the culture. We don't say the meth head in rural WVA needs to pull himself up by his own bootstraps, we say the problem is hopelessness due to jobs moving overseas. Yet, the problems,causes and culture are very similar.[/quote]

I think you need to look more towards rural white areas. When plants leave small towns for overseas, when computers and robots take over jobs, when farming becomes extinct, and online sales take over, there is not enough employment to sustain them. Many can't afford to live in the cities. Many can't afford to sell their house because it is upside down because no one wants to move there. Many have no transportation. Many lovely towns have gone to shit because the government does not step in to help. And by help I mean offer massive tax cuts to companies who open up in small towns, set up computer tech schools, and encourage colleges to build satellite schools nearby. No only to help educate but bring in tons of jobs.

The government has spent a fortune on inner cities to no avail.[b] Inner city families have walkability and public transportation to get to jobs[/b]. There is no reason to be unemployed living in a city. [/quote]

Except that the jobs aren't in the "inner cities", therefore "inner city" families can't walk to the jobs, [b]and public transportation takes forever, when it even runs at all.[/b]

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Really?  Baltimore and DC have some of the best public transportation.  That is a pretty pathetic excuse for why you can't work.  [/quote]

Baltimore's public transportation is nothing like DC's and it's horrible. If you happen to live and work on the lightrail, you might be ok, but otherwise you're looking at spending hours traversing by bus. Buses that don't appear to follow a schedule, and put your safety at risk in some cases.[/quote]

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