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Copy of Copy of Americas Society Is In Need Of Help

Published on Apr 27, 2016

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ANDREW GALLAGHER, TRENT PAISLY, DOMINIC MILLER, AND JAKE MLAKAR.

Drinking alcohol increases the risk of cancers of the mouth, esophagus, pharynx, larynx, liver, and breast.
Black and Latino students are more likely to attend poorly funded schools.
Moderate alcohol consumption, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, is up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men.
Police shoot and kill blacks almost twice as frequently as any other racial group
In 2013, of the 71,713 total liver disease deaths among individuals aged 12 and older, 46.4 percent involved alcohol.

More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems, according to a 2012 study.
As a culture, when we hear that the number of people affected by alcoholism is growing, we seem to think, “That’s their business – “their” being the alcoholic.”
It is estimated that alcohol-related expenses cost federal, state, and local governments $223.5 billion.

White Americans help more than 88 percent of the country's wealth in 2010, according to a Demos analysis of Federal Reserve data, though they made up 64 percent of the population. Black Americans held 2.7 percent of the country's wealth, though they made up 13 percent of the population.
Police shoot and kill blacks almost twice as frequently as any other racial group
Black and Latino students are more likely to attend poorly funded schools

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In a 2009 report, 2/3 of the criminals receiving life sentences were non-whites. In New York, it is 83%.
In 2009 African-Americans are 21% more likely than whites to receive mandatory minimum sentences and 20% more likely to be sentenced to prison than white drug defendants.
Affluent blacks and Hispanics still live in poorer neighborhoods than whites with working class incomes.

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50% of mental health conditions begin by age 14 and 75% of mental health conditions develop by age 24
1 in 5 adults experiences a mental health condition every year.
A mental illness is a condition that impacts a person's thinking, feeling or mood
Kids with mental illnesses become an easier target to being bullied
There is no cure for any mental condition,but you can always get help to control it

In 2011, nearly 46.2 million Americans were living in poverty.
Children living in poverty have a higher number of absenteeism or leave school all together because they are more likely to have to work or care for family members.
Dropout rates of 16 to 24-years-old students who come from low income families are seven times more likely to drop out than those from families with higher incomes.

Children that live below the poverty line are 1.3 times more likely to have developmental delays or learning disabilities than those who don’t live in poverty.
By the end of the 4th grade, African-American, Hispanic and low-income students are already 2 years behind grade level. By the time they reach the 12th grade they are 4 years behind.
In 2013, the dropout rate for students in the nation was at 8% for African American, 7% for Hispanic youth, and 4% for Asian youth, which are all higher than the dropout rate for Caucasian youth (4%).