However, too often, inner cities are viewed as places of blight, poverty, and social ills.
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Realistically, the epidemic will persist until and unless these broader social ills are addressed.
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Further, the Bloomberg administration has struggled with one of the city's most visible social ills, homelessness.
Polygamy is widely blamed for social ills ranging from school absenteeism to street violence.
These days, Slim insists his biggest concern is using his wealth to help solve Mexico's social ills.
Westminster talk of welfare reform chimes with public concern that economic inactivity is linked to social ills.
And down we spiral as greater social spending begets greater social ills requiring still greater levels of spending.
And the death of any kind of redistributive ethic makes it tough to seek solutions to social ills.
So have alcoholism, teenage pregnancy, Ted Kennedy campaign contributions and other social ills.
Most of the social ills, some argue, come from moral deterioration in a country where virtue was once revered.
Social democrats sometimes fail to look beyond material factors (especially income) when trying to explain or cure social ills.
Handouts prompt handouts, particularly subsidizing illegitimacy which spawns myriad social ills instigating still more spending in an insidious downward cycle.
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Importantly, businesses have the ability to alleviate the root causes of social ills (incarceration, addiction, poverty, etc.) by providing employment opportunities.
During that time the population of London alone had exploded from one million, to three times that figure, with all its attendant social ills.
Sadly, the government chose to treat that outbreak as a security problem rather than as a symptom of wider social ills.
My prediction: The best and brightest millennials will combine missionary zeal, hardcore management skills and Silicon Valley-style creativity to attack social ills.
Setting out to diagnose the social ills that face Britain, Hensher, in his refusal to empathize, ends up seeming symptomatic of them.
Their book caused a stir in Britain by showing, with copious graphs and statistics, that inequality is associated with all manner of social ills.
The young Mr Moynihan shocked his Democratic friends in 1965 with a report that blamed social ills on the break-up of the black family.
The authors are also accused of ignoring social ills such as suicide and alcohol abuse, which some say are higher in more equal countries.
He found that, even a decade after the accident, many people in the area are depressed and traumatised, with high rates of alcoholism and other social ills.
Others say they use innovative methods to solve social ills.
When it comes to policies with significant economic and personal impact, and that aim so optimistically to solve great social ills, we need a lot more than minimum reporting.
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There are already signs that unemployment is contributing to a rise in crime, drugs, divorce and other social ills and making young men more vulnerable to the appeal of religious extremism.
But as the government says, the Social Exclusion Unit is not just about fighting social ills, it is also about creating better services for the individual and the community as a whole.
But even in this paradise, away from the city, with its dense population, disease and social ills, the villagers can relate to the same matter, and that residents of large cities ...
In fact, administrative overhead is essential if we are to develop programs that go beyond Band-Aid responses and build the kind of infrastructure and collaborations that address the root causes of social ills.
Speaking ahead of Sunday's qualifying draw for the 2010 tournament, Blatter said the World Cup could help solve the social ills of the hosts South Africa by acting as a catalyst for development.
"I do think that it's important when we have the opportunity to talk about violence and not just kind of have it as entertainment, but connect it to the wrongs, the injustices, the social ills, " she said.
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