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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 25, 2021, 11:12 pm
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How the world is restructuring trade [without the US] | DW News
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> What’s next after America First? Hopes are running high that
US President-Elect Joe Biden will help restore order after
Donald Trump turned international trade into a zero-sum game
with very few winners. But pandemic-wrought economic devastation
at home may make thinking globally a tall order.
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China overtakes US as top country for foreign investment | DW
News
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> UN figures show China was the largest recipient of new foreign
direct investment in 2020, overtaking the US for the first time.
The Chinese economy brought in 163 billion dollars in investment
as the coronavirus outbreak spread across the world. That
compares to the 134 billion attracted by the United States.
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Starting to wonder if quotes like this one are actually true?:
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Because he certainly said this:
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> It’s very good.
> Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.
> strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we’ve
experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States
has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror. — reported
12 September 2001 by New York Times and 11 September 2012 by
Electronic Intifida
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And this:
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> I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very
easily, move it in the right direction. They won't get in our
way. … They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo
accords] … I said I would, but … I'm going to interpret the
accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this
galloping forward to the '67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody
said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones
are security zones; as far as I'm concerned, the entire Jordan
Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue. — As quoted in
"Netanyahu: 'America is a thing you can move very easily'" (16
July 2010), The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. [1] (Hebrew
video source)
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 28, 2021, 1:39 pm
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COVID-19 pummels U.S. economy in 2020
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> The U.S. economy contracted at its sharpest pace since World
War Two in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic depressed consumer
spending and business investment, pushing millions of Americans
out of work and into poverty.
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Biden's top economic adviser responds to GOP letter
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> Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese tells
CNN's Dana Bash that they are open to ideas about economic
relief for the coronavirus pandemic.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 30, 2021, 2:39 am
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 1, 2021, 12:43 am
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How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias,
Anti-Elitism, Media Circus
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> How America Got Divorced from Reality: [Judeo-Greco]Christian
Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XirnEfkdQJM
The speaker fails to mention Western civilization which is
constantly attempting to overlay itself on America. Much of what
he mentions comes from "old world" thinking and feelings that
Americans keep slipping back in to. America was supposed to be
the leader of the "new world", not the "old world".
See also:
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 2, 2021, 10:59 pm
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America's Prescription Drug Cartel
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> Americans are on the brink of disaster, now more so than ever
before....
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 6, 2021, 5:31 pm
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Abandoned Detroit - The City of Neglect (Documentary)
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> Abandoned Detroit: The City of Neglect (Documentary) The name
itself may sound familiar to many people when they think of
Detroit, Michigan. Detroit has always been heavily scrutinized
and criticized in the media for all the problems the city has
gone through over the years; from a booming 1920’s industrial
icon, to a city that lost over one million people by the 1970’s,
to when the city was financially bankrupt in the late 2000’s.
When people think of urban decay and abandoned buildings,
Detroit is usually right at the top of that list. Abandoned
Detroit: The City of Neglect is a documentary that is rare,
unique, and never been done before. Sure, there have been many
documentaries and movies about the City of Detroit, but none are
more comprehensive and extensive as this project. This
documentary follows the life of an urban explorer, named Detroit
Unseen, who travels the country to explore, photograph, and
document abandoned buildings. Detroit Unseen was the perfect
candidate for this documentary because he has been urban
exploring for 13 years and although he has travelled all over
the country, he has been documenting the City of Detroit over
that same time period. Many of the once iconic structures and
buildings that he was able to photograph, have since been
demolished, ruined, renovated, or restored. After watching this
documentary, one thing becomes clear. Detroit was a city that
was on the verge of extinction and is now making its way into
the history books as a city that made a miraculous comeback.
This is not just another project focused on the negative aspects
of Detroit. Although many people feel that the abandoned
buildings and urban decay are negative things, we look at them
as beautiful, unique pieces of history, art, and architectural
craftsmanship. We will be showcasing the history of Detroit and
how the city ended up with all the abandonment, as well as how
we can save the buildings from being demolished or ruined, by
repurpose, restoration, and renovation. We feel that we need to
preserve our history and many of the majestic pre-depression era
buildings are disappearing at an alarming rate. This documentary
truly represents 13 years of entering and photographing these
historic structures. Despite sometimes being saddened by a lost
building or a loss of history and culture, documenting the
changes is vital. Abandoned Detroit: The City of Neglect helps
document these changes. We hope that in the coming years as city
planners, investors, stakeholders, and speculators make way for
progress, Detroit can hold on to its rich culture and iconic
history.
> Detroit is as iconic as America itself and its story is not
just shining images of what is to come. With Detroit you take
the good with the bad, recognize the good as it comes and
preserve the good that has come before. Many that enter the City
of Detroit can sense the urgency of change and the spirit of
reinvention. We certainly understand this, and the photos
represent what we have seen along the way. The Flag of Detroit
contains the two Latin slogans “Speramus Meliora” and “Resurget
Cineribus” meaning “We hope for better things” and “It will rise
from the ashes.” The prophetic phrases originally created in
reference to the great fire of 1805, ring true more now than
ever. We take these slogans to heart everyday as we go out and
explore our great city.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 6, 2021, 10:41 pm
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Conway: We're watching moral collapse of Republican Party
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> CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with conservative lawyer George
Conway about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has pushed
continued claims of election fraud and conspiracy theories about
school shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Also, CNN's
Ryan Nobles reports on what actions the Republican Party may
take against Taylor Greene.
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Not that the U.S.'s morals were ever that great to begin with,
but things definitely took a turn for the worse when the GOP and
democrats refused to do a proper investigation into the OBVIOUS
conspiracy related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Obviously,
someone had to conspire against the U.S. for those attacks to
occur, did they not? Instead of doing a proper investigation to
get to the bottom of 9/11 Americans did what they always do,
take the easy road and blame it on poor brown people.
Lest we also forget, the media-circus and general dishonesty of
U.S. media leads to conspiracy theories in the first place
because no one can trust the media, or the government for that
matter.
Do you know why no Americans, or Jews, have ever tried to do
their due-diligence in refuting the following documentary about
9/11? I suspect it's because they cannot, so they take the easy
road as usual and just label it a "conspiracy theory", and then
blame poor brown people. This is how Israel got exactly what it
wanted out of 9/11.
"Home of the brave" you say? Yea, right....
911 Missing Links Israeli Mossad Involvement - Full Documentary
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vG7klGmXw
And, to make matters worse, 9/11 was not the first time Israel
attacked America:
The Day Israel Attacked America | Special Series
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> Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly
Israeli attack on a US naval vessel.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx72tAWVcoM
The U.S. government threw the service members that survived the
Israeli attack on the U.S. Liberty under the bus as well, just
as it did all the first responders on the day of the 9/11
attacks. Then, they have the stupidity to wonder out loud why so
many Americans believe in "conspiracy theories". One reason must
be because the U.S. government and media has deprived Americans
of justice in the face of obvious crimes, duh!
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 8, 2021, 8:39 pm
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Did The Pandemic Just Reveal How Dumb Americans Are?
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> The movies were all wrong.
>
> At times when the world descends into chaos and destruction,
Americans will not take charge of the situation and save the day
with a superhero task force.
>
> The coronavirus pandemic has proved that in a crisis, what
happens is that the world would watch America with concern and
disgust as it brings about its destruction and makes wildly
inaccurate claims, blaming everyone but themselves for the
problem at hand.
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> The USA’s Coronavirus Response
>
> “It’s going to disappear. One day – it’s like a miracle – it
will disappear,” said Trump on February 27, nearly a month after
the WHO had declared the coronavirus as a global health
emergency.
>
> Fast forward to April, and the United States became the
country with the highest number of cases in the world. Trump’s
campaign theme is “America first”, well he certainly got America
to be first, just in the worst way possible.
>
> Even after the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a
pandemic, the Americans insisted upon living their lives
normally, inexplicably believing that “American exceptionalism”
will save them.
>
> In March, Trump called for social distancing, and in the same
month voiced his opinions to reopen the nation. By April, the
country crossed 1 million cases. Even by May, only 2.74% of the
population had been tested, a far cry from the 900,000 tests a
day that a country of the US’s 320+ million population needed.
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> By this point, American people had begun protesting against
mandatory masks, bemoaned the shutdowns and blamed China for
everything. Trump gave free reins to states to run amok,
not-so-subtly encouraging them to reopen economies, a
proposition that the people welcomed.
>
> It is to be noted that back in 2018, Trump disbanded the
government’s pandemic task-force. The consequences of this are
visible.
>
> While social distancing measures were undertaken, the country
was supposed to prepare their health infrastructure for more
cases. Surprisingly they didn’t manage to do that.
> Doctors and nurses were forced to use garbage bags and
homemade masks as protective gear while tending to patients. All
this, happening in a developed country, an unmatched superpower
that has been brought to its knees by a virus.
>
> Even as doctors were pleading people to follow social
distancing rules and wear masks to not increase their workload,
hundreds of Americans descended upon beaches, yes beaches, in
Florida in the middle of a pandemic.
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> America’s Favourite Thing About The World Is ‘America’
>
> When the coronavirus proved to be more dangerous than
previously assumed, Americans did what they do best – they
blamed the problem on others, called their growing positive
cases to be due to more testing, patted themselves on the back
and began a xenophobic tirade against China, from where the
virus originated and pointed at Italy and other European
countries who were struggling with high death rates.
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> It is now August, Italy is being praised for bouncing back
from its hard times, China is edging back to normal life after
stringent lockdowns and social distancing practices whilst the
United States has more than 5 million cases, with 177,000+
deaths.
>
> Trump’s first substantial step for controlling the virus was
suspending entry into the US, specifically from China, and later
on from European countries, citing them as the source for the
USA’s rising cases.
>
> The sides have now switched, Europe is relatively back to
normal, and Americans are not on the list of nationalities who
can travel to the EU.
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> The Orange
>
> In 2016, when Donald Trump was elected into office, most
people knew that the future wasn’t looking good, but everyone
consoled themselves saying, “what’s the worst that can happen?”
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> In his first year in office, he set up a travel ban,
specifically targeting Muslim countries. His supporters, who are
a sizable part of the population stood firmly behind him, with
Trump having received 46.1% of the popular vote in the 2016
election.
>
> And they continued to stand behind him, even as he talked up a
“border wall” to keep out “the caravan” of immigrants on the
Mexican border and even as details of children being separated
from their parents and being kept in cages at the border came to
light.
>
> But it seems that his mishandling of the coronavirus is what
will bring his government down, with his handling of pandemic
ratings plummeting to 31%.
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> Anti-intellectualism
>
> A vast majority of Americans showcase disdain for
intellectualism, which is why they voted for someone like Trump,
a billionaire with no experience in office and someone who has
repeatedly proven that critical thinking is not his forte.
>
> As the world raced to provide masks to its citizens, Americans
referred to mask-wearing as an infringement against their
freedom. Wearing masks became a left or right issue, with Trump
unsurprisingly taking the side of anti-masks movements, which
has people taking to the street sans masks to protest against
the coronavirus responses.
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> When Trump suggested injecting disinfectants in one’s body to
fight against coronavirus, a flurry of remarks had to be issued
from the White House because his ardent supporters were ready to
take him seriously.
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> Blaming everyone but their inadequate leaders, a March survey
found that 66% Americans had an unfavourable opinion of China,
with a whopping 71% republicans saying that America had done a
good job dealing with the pandemic.
>
> The US has withdrawn from the WHO, and though the move was
widely criticized, 51% American were found to hold the WHO in
low regard, calling their COVID-19 response only fair or poor.
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> Americans brought this situation upon themselves and years of
ineptitude, callousness, racism and disdain for science-backed
sources have led to a nation that is so insistent on protecting
individualism that it is willing to let thousands die to protect
some vague idea of ‘freedom’ and capitalism.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 8, 2021, 8:51 pm
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A Baffled World Thinks Americans are Idiots. Is It Right?
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> How the American Idiot Baffles, Bewilders, and Horrifies the
World
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> Warning: this essay might make you angry. I want to share with
you the kinds of conversations that I have with people from
around the world lately. Maybe that will give Americans a window
into how bewildered, baffled, and horrified the world is by what
they’ve let their country become. If you’re American, you may
want to say, “But I’m not stupid!” Fair enough, you may not be.
But the entire world can hardly be wrong either. The question is
whether in America, stupidity has become a kind of institution,
way of life, cultural value — whether it’s the only system left
that governs anything at all. The question isn’t about you — the
well-meaning, intelligent, good American. It’s about systemic
stupidity, going thermonuclear.
>
> I have these conversations almost every day. With people from
Europe, Asia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. And
today’s particular conversation went a little bit like this.
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Are Americans Just Stupid?
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> Anti-intellectualism has little to do with intelligence.
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> Be honest. As an observer of American society, the thought may
have crossed your mind at one time or another – at least for a
fleeting moment or two – that the nation's dysfunctional state
of affairs is the result of widespread stupidity. The people,
too often misinformed and poorly educated, are getting exactly
the democracy they deserve.
>
> Perhaps that thought arose last week as you watched the
cringe-worthy presidential debate, which pundits have called "a
disgrace" and "an embarrassment for the ages." Our public
discourse has been in decline for so long that it was bound to
come to this, right? Effective self-government requires an
intelligent and engaged public, and it seems the American
electorate falls woefully short. With large segments of the
population brazenly rejecting facts and science – whether the
issue is climate change, evolution, the coronavirus, or the
latest conspiracy theory – it's no surprise that social and
political dysfunction are rampant.
>
> Seen this way, it’s tempting to chalk up the clown car of
American democracy to the collective intellectual deficit of its
population. In truth, however, there is little evidence to
support the notion that the American people are stupid.
Objective measurements of intelligence can be controversial,
raising questions of true objectivity and cultural bias, but it
is difficult to find any that suggest Americans are lacking in
IQ compared to those in other countries.
>
> If this is so, it becomes all the more baffling that Americans
have higher rates of belief in young-Earth creationism than most
other industrialized countries. Four in ten Americans believe
that humans were created in their present form about 10,000
years ago. Evolution by natural selection is a cornerstone of
modern biology, but it is “controversial” in American schools.
Similarly, large segments of the population still refuse to
accept that human activity contributes significantly to climate
change, even though there is no serious debate on the issue in
the scientific community.
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> Nevertheless, if we examine the rejection of science closely,
we find that it is not rooted in stupidity. The dad who brings
his family to the Creation Museum to see cavemen mingling with
dinosaurs might surprise you with his intellectual abilities,
whether by reciting obscure sports statistics from memory,
analyzing complex problems or ideas on the job, or building an
impressive addition onto his home in his spare time. And that
mother who fights administrators to establish a religious club
in her child's public school, propagating fundamentalist beliefs
that reject science into the next generation, may have been at
the top of her class back in high school.
>
> To understand American anti-intellectualism, it’s important to
realize that smart people can embrace dumb ideas. On an
individual or social level, this happens when the right mix of
factors come together. The first factor is our own makeup – all
humans are to some degree biologically prone to intellectual
laziness, emotional decision-making, confirmation bias, and
other natural impulses that often obstruct critical thinking.
>
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> But beyond the biological elements, there are also numerous
environmental factors that can reinforce or weaken
anti-intellectual tendencies. The extent to which one's family
embraces education and critical thinking, for example, will be a
major factor for many. Also, and importantly, the existence of
influential cultural institutions that promote
anti-intellectualism may result in a population that, regardless
of its raw intellectual abilities, will seem in many ways
ignorant.
>
> To this last point, as Richard Hofstadter pointed out long ago
in his Pulitzer-prize winning book, Anti-Intellectualism in
American Life, the correlation between fundamentalist religion
and anti-intellectualism cannot be ignored. If strong religious
beliefs reject well-established scientific facts that conflict
with theological doctrine, intelligent scientific inquiry will
not be valued. As Hofstadter argued half a century ago, this
alone helps to explain much about American anti-intellectualism.
Today, while religion is generally in decline in America, the
country is still the most religious in the developed world, and
its fundamentalist Christian institutions are particularly
powerful.
>
> Other cultural factors can also contribute to making a society
of intelligent people appear surprisingly unintelligent. The
quality and reliability of journalism and other news media, for
example, will be a factor in how the population thinks. And the
economic security (or lack thereof) of the population is also a
factor to consider. Intellectual priorities are more likely to
take a back seat if one is living in constant stress, in fear of
poverty, without health care, or working multiple jobs just to
make ends meet. And of course evolving technology is a factor as
well – consider how social media and smartphones have influenced
the public dialogue in just a generation.
>
> All of these factors and many others shape our values, as
individuals and a society, with respect to critical thinking. If
we begin to assess the United States in the context of some of
them, leaving aside the conservative religion factor already
discussed, we find a nation today that, unlike previous
generations, increasingly informs itself via cable news, talk
radio, and social media of dubious quality. Perhaps more
importantly, we find a nation where economic insecurity and
inequality are growing in prevalence, resulting in more fear and
anxiety.
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> These phenomena and others can work together to create an
atmosphere that devalues critical thinking and rational
discourse. When this happens, the result is anti-intellectualism
as a defining character trait, and this occurs regardless of the
underlying intelligence of the person or society involved.
>
> As such, if the next political debate you watch lacks
thoughtful discourse but instead resembles a Jerry Springer
episode, don't blame it on the public's intelligence. Stupidity
is not what has degenerated the American social and political
landscape. The failure of our institutions to generate an honest
appreciation of intelligence as a cultural value has left us
looking stupid.
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Americans also do not appreciate nobility, which is more
important than intelligence on many levels, nor do they
appreciate selfless service, hence why so many of them are
selfish, stupid, and ignoble people that "horrify" the rest of
the world with their idiocy.
BONUS:
Ahmadinejad: Bin Laden Is in D.C.
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Re: American Empire Collapse: It's About To Get Much Worse(?)
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 9, 2021, 10:44 pm
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How to Fix America's Worsening Homeless Crisis
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> More than 700,000 Americans are homeless, a number that is
expected to rise in the aftermath of Covid-19. How did this
happen? Why does a country with unprecedented wealth and
prosperity have so many people with no roof above their head?
Bloomberg CityLab dives deep into America’s urgent problem, and
what can be done about it.
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