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Posted 7/2/2001

> Why Young People Embrace Prison Culture
By Andrew Young (article printed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 1, 2001)

The destructive jailhouse culture expressed in much youth behavior today -- from "butt britches" to predatory violence -- is directly linked to the persistent poverty in our society and the growing number of people we are placing behind bars.


Posted 7/2/2001

> Confronting Poverty
By Andrew Young (Commencement speech delivered at National University, San Diego, May 13, 2001)

What's important is that you know that you have the capacity to build upon the knowledge and experience of the past and create your own future. And just as I think the difficulty of race defined my success for the last 50 years, I would suggest that the challenge of poverty will define yours.


Posted 5/24/2001

> Tax Cuts Widen US Income Gap
(Christian Science Monitor, May 23, 2001)
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President Bush's tax cut promises to have a side effect that bothers many Americans: widening the gap between rich and poor...at a time when income inequality has already been growing, by most measures, in the world's flagship capitalist democracy.

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