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“Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy.”

Quote by Amelia Warren Tyagi

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Amelia Warren Tyagi

Amelia Warren Tyagi is an economist, whose life and achievements are not well-documented. more

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“The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a job loss, a medical problem, or a divorce. And the fact is that those are exactly the kind of calamities that the bankruptcy courts were designed to help people through.”

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“I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.”

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“In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.”

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“When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.”

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“Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.”

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“The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.”

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“The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs.”

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“One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.”

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“If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.”

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“If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.”

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