diagnosed with drug or alcohol addictions or they have vocational challenges uh or educational deficiencies or physical ailments that are exacerbating their conditions they're poor we have a huge poverty problem in this country we have not heard one word uttered about the issue of poverty in any of the presidential debates we have heard nothing since John
And it was segregated everywhere in the country-- not in the South, but everywhere in the country, frequently, frequently segregating communities that had never known segregation before, or in some cases exacerbating segregation where it might have just been incipient, but not well-established. Some of you-- I don't know, any of you familiar with the great African-American poet, novelist, the playwright, Langston Hughes?
Thank you for your talk. and that that's dramatically exacerbating the problem.
So in the story of the Sirens, it's a story of temptation. You don't want the government exacerbating a business cycle.
Citizens with the government in in these better and different ways and so forth uh do we run the risk of exacerbating societal differences by creating uh a underclass there's 30% of the people who right now say they're not even interested in getting a broadband
being a source of community and a source of comfort in a lot of circumstances, but also, in some ways, because of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, exacerbating your loneliness at the same time. Was it both of those things?
temperatures so many people kind of Wonder with so many of these contos around and the way they spread out to form other high clouds you know whether they are sort of exacerbating some of the the warming Trends full streak hole when part of a
disproportionately among marginalized and under-resourced communities and then to overlay that with the social determinants of health, as well as the political determinants of health, to basically track which policies have been mitigating inequities and which ones have been exacerbating inequities. Let me leave you with this final thought from my dear friend, mentor, David Satcher, our 16th US surgeon general.
So on the other end of Indonesia in Aceh there was a similar facility, a liquefied natural gas plant, that had to shut down for four months because of basically a civil war going on around it that some people accused that company of exacerbating . And I did some research for the book-- I couldn't find an exact figure-- but I found a bunch of estimates that
And that continues to be true in abnormal circumstances. However, the early indicators are that it's really exacerbating existing disparities and affecting boys and boys of color, Black and Latino boys, the most. We are seeing in attendance numbers major gaps where attendance, even in virtual school versus existing
There's also tremendous inequality. And by the way, that's something that the pandemic is also exacerbating . But you mentioned the 40%-41% of mothers in the United States-- or wives-- so married women that make more money
And I think that inclusion, though, is very important for making sure that these ideals, tools, and research are really global and will This is an intervention that, even though it was targeted to poor, rural areas, in those areas, it's probably exacerbating inequality, at least in the short run.
And I think that inclusion, though, is very important for making sure that these ideals, tools, and research are really global and will So again, instead of writing them off, we have to identify which interventions are exacerbating inequality and then design new interventions to make sure disadvantaged groups aren't
to ascertain whether the health outcome is systemic, avoidable, and unjust. How far can you venture to understand whether it is an institutional or structural barrier that created, is perpetuating, or exacerbating the inequity? What is the policy change desired?
So this is nothing new. And, if so, what do you see as the most exacerbating destabilizing forces that are at work?
Have some sort of broader numbers come together about what's the impact of jobs, or cost savings. And one of the questions that I ask is as we move toward digitizing services, do we run the risk of exacerbating
But if you lived in the San Francisco Bay Area 120 years ago, what kind of law enforcement would you be experiencing? which is the crimes of necessity or desperation, that how much does poverty itself create the violence versus violence exacerbating the poverty?