The Battle To Boost Opportunity

Poverty Remains A Huge Barrier To Developing The Potential Of Minority Youths
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Of all the issues raised by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, perhaps the most intractable is the challenge of restoring opportunity to the high-poverty, high-crime, racially segregated neighborhoods where police and minority communities often collide most sharply.

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