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Jesse Jackson on Gun Violence and Poverty

https://portside.org/2017-12-18/jesse-jackson-gun-violence-and-poverty
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Author: Rev. Jesse Jachson
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Guardian (UK)

'You cannot police poverty. You cannot police broken dreams, you cannot police aspirations. This cannot be dealt with on just a citywide level. We have drugs and guns coming in, and jobs going out. In most of the areas where these shootings are taking place, the unemployment rate is between 45 percent and 55 percent.'

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