Those people who moved lost their social networks as well as their homes. Over time, deindustrialization took their decent blue-collar jobs, too.
People had everything taken from them yet it seems like no one cared and makes me wonder why these people had to lose everything just for someone else to make thousands. (Jessica F - B)
banks refused to lend at all in neighborhoods that federally backed officials had identified as having "undesirable racial concentrations."
Although i have heard of this happening to people in south I’ve never heard of it happening in Maryland or Virginia which makes me wonder what ways integrated racism affected most of the US not just small areas. (Jessica F - B)
1951 to 1971, 80 to 90 percent of the 25,000 families displaced in Baltimore to build new highways, schools and housing projects were black
This is upsetting knowing that families lost their homes just for new infrastructure to be built and raise the price of areas the families would call home. (Jessica F - B)
universal billing system to reduce costs, rather than the many different forms used by different insurance companies, and for federal funds to build an electronic health information infrastructure
I like this idea since would eliminate some of the cost that cause many Americans to not seek medical health until it's life threatening and give people warning signs just in case something happens so they can get any problems early. Jessica F. -B
single payer, government run system would cover everyone, without barriers, based on ability to pay
This affirms the fact that our government could have had healthcare system by now if the wanted to since they have the ability to, even if that meant redistributing where money goes. Jessica F. - B
our country’s current pluralistic system without universal healthcare coverage is unacceptable and puts us behind other countries
I agree, especially since the US is one the very few or only modern country that doesn’t have a free healthcare system which affects the food and regulations we have since the government hasn’t made everyone’s health a priority. Jessica F.- B