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“We know that people are tense and anxious, with the highest unemployment rates in our nation’s history and families worried about where their next meal or their next rent payment will come from,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said. “It’s no wonder that some, in their hopelessness, turn to violence.”
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““We know that people are tense and anxious, with the highest unemployment rates in our nation’s history and families worried about where their next meal or their next rent payment will come from,” she said during a press conference Friday. “It’s no wonder that some, in their hopelessness, turn to violence.”” So black on black violence is because 23 year old gangbanger is worried about rent? Really? And isn’t everyone receiveing an extra $600 a week on unemployment anyways? Where is the rest of the violence outside the urban areas because of missed rent? Why wasn’t coastal Maine… Read more »