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I live in the Western 'Burbs, and so I've gotten old and begin to have the old age aches and pains. It's not a lot of fun to have arthritic knees and an aching back, but it beats moving to Englewood (a South-Side neighborhood of Chicago, for you out-of-towners).

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/guns-and-dollars/economic-breakdown-chicagos-englewood-neighborhood
This week, Marketplace's Sylvester Monroe reports from Englewood, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, which has one of the highest homicide rates in the city. Here's an economic breakdown of the area:

Population: 30,654
Average income: $11,993 (Chicago's is $27,148)
Poverty level: 42.2 percent
Unemployment rate: 21.3 percent
Percent without high school diploma: 29.4 percent
Violent crime ranking: From 11/26/12 to 12/26/2012, Englewood ranked 9th of 77 neighborhoods when it comes to homicides, assaults and rapes. Nineteen violent crimes over the time period were on the street or on a sidewalk. One was at a school and one was at a bus stop. There were 17 homicides in 2012.
Property crime rankings: From 11/26/12 to 12/26/2012, Englewood ranked 6th of 77 neighborhoods when it comes to thefts, car thefts and arson.
Quality of life crime rankings: From 11/26/12 to 12/26/2012, Englewood ranked 6th of 77 neighborhoods when it comes to narcotics, vandalism and prostitution crimes.
Other facts: Englewood has one of the highest concentrations of relocated project households that use housing vouchers on the private market; Of Englewood's 15,210 households, 274 were moved from the projects to Englewood between 1999 and 2010. That's 1.5 percent of households, one of the highest concentrations in the city.

Quote from: mjmsprt40 on 2015-06-12, 02:56:36I live in the Western 'Burbs, and so I've gotten old and begin to have the old age aches and pains. It's not a lot of fun to have arthritic knees and an aching back, but it beats moving to Englewood (a South-Side neighborhood of Chicago, for you out-of-towners).I think I'll start a new thread on poverty. More later.

the cost was $801!

Now, if we cut back slightly on the $600,000,000,000 we spend on defense, glasses could be free.

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2015-06-27, 15:01:18

Now, if we cut back slightly on the $600,000,000,000 we spend on defense, glasses could be free.

So you could see the enemy invading you...

Most likely, United States will fall like Rome: After having conquered all the world and thus having eliminated any chance of invasion, it implodes on its own weight.

An anesthesiologist is eating her words, after a Fairfax County, Virginia, jury ordered her and a Bethesda, Maryland practice to pay a patient $500,000 in damages for medical malpractice and defamation.

The patient, identified only as "D.B." in court papers to protect his identity, was undergoing a routine colonoscopy in April 2013 at a Reston, Va., facility.

Woman Sues Hospital for Sticker Prank During Surgery
According to court documents, D.B. used his smartphone to record the doctor's instructions for post-operative care but forgot to stop the recording when he was sedated.

On his way home from the procedure, he started listening to the recording and found that the anesthesiologist, Tiffany Ingham, and other medical staff had made insulting comments about him while he was unconscious.

"Really, after five minutes of talking to you in pre-op, I wanted to punch you in the face and man you up a little bit," Ingham could be heard saying in the recording. The recordings, which were entered into evidence in the lawsuit, also caught Ingham writing a false diagnosis in D.B.'s chart.

"I'm going to mark hemorrhoids even though we don't see them and probably won't," she said in the recording. "I'm just going to take a shot in the dark."

United States has never been invaded.

Quote from: ersi on 2015-06-27, 16:13:36

United States has never been invaded.

Odd. My history books talk of the War of 1812.

Quote from: Frenzie on 2015-06-28, 06:50:13

Quote from: ersi on 2015-06-27, 16:13:36

United States has never been invaded.

Odd. My history books talk of the War of 1812.

So do mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia but United States was not invaded there. What do your history books say?

They call that Napoleon's Russian campaign. The War of 1812 was on another continent without Napoleonic involvement.

British forces burned Washington during the War of 1812. Since the US was already a nation by that time, on our 4th president (James Madison) that counts as an invasion by a foreign power. Geez, and here you Europeans are always spouting about how we don't know history beyond our shores..........Get a better history book.

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