Authorities now report that the...
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* Authorities now report that the largest group of people living in poverty in America are children.
* Gangs run rampant in the inner city. Police report that young boys and even girls are forced into gang membership in order to have a safe haven from other groups.
* The announcer on the evening news reported: "The drug problem may not be so simple as education. In this neighborhood children know the dangers of crack cocaine by the time they are seven. Something more than the facts is needed.
* Inner-city eIementary teachers are frustrated by the number of behavior problems in their classes caused by the children born of addicted mothers.
* A 14-year-old girl was shot last night in a drive-by shooting. That is the 15th child killed randomly this year in the city.
Those rich folks like us that cluck our tongues as the terrible problems in this land need to heed the warning of this parable. The terrible sin it describes was not the evil the rich man did, but that he did nothing to help the suffering of Lazarus.
* Gangs run rampant in the inner city. Police report that young boys and even girls are forced into gang membership in order to have a safe haven from other groups.
* The announcer on the evening news reported: "The drug problem may not be so simple as education. In this neighborhood children know the dangers of crack cocaine by the time they are seven. Something more than the facts is needed.
* Inner-city eIementary teachers are frustrated by the number of behavior problems in their classes caused by the children born of addicted mothers.
* A 14-year-old girl was shot last night in a drive-by shooting. That is the 15th child killed randomly this year in the city.
Those rich folks like us that cluck our tongues as the terrible problems in this land need to heed the warning of this parable. The terrible sin it describes was not the evil the rich man did, but that he did nothing to help the suffering of Lazarus.
