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What the experts said
Community-based interventions have been incremental at best and we have not solved the gang problem.
66% of Black children in the United States are living in concentrated disadvantage.
If you have a criminal record, your chances of getting meaningful purposeful work is less than 5%.
Children between 2 and 8 years of age are diagnosed with hypertension in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
93% of people who are in prison get released.
Waterfield's Microgreens has revenue of about $800,000 and all major boutique restaurants in Cincinnati purchase their products.
We have done a much better job over the years caring for injured patients, even as we work on prevention.
Harsh parenting is one of the drivers for children misbehaving and it begins very early in the fetal stage.
Cure Violence program reports 41 to 73% drops in shootings and killings in violent zones, but juxtaposed neighborhoods continue to have violence.
ROCA program impacted 854 high-risk individuals in fiscal year 17 with 84% success rate, but deals only with individuals rather than neighborhood context.
Employment and marriage were the most effective deterrents to gang involvement, supported by the Fragile Families Study at Princeton.
The relationship between concentrated disadvantage and violence is quite the same in Stockholm, Sweden and Chicago despite vastly different overall violence rates.
Most adults in inner city ghettos are not working, and today's problems are a consequence of the disappearance of work.
The chances of somebody living in an impoverished neighborhood in Cincinnati of getting out is 5.1%, according to work from Chetty, Hendren, and Katz.
1 in 9 Black men between 20 and 34 are in jail or prison.
Lead exposure in racially stratified neighborhoods is associated with criminal behavior in adulthood, according to Dr. Ken Dietrich's longitudinal study in Cincinnati.
A 20-year study of place-based community change initiatives with $11 billion in best practices funding showed no widespread change in child well-being or reductions in neighborhood poverty.
80% of children living in violent neighborhoods are affected by PTSD because of witnessing violence.
Survival rate for acute lymphocytic leukemia in children has improved from 20% at the start of Jack Shonkoff's residency to over 80% today.