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"Students who lived in low-income areas were far more likely to lack internet access at home, which forced many teens to completely leave school when they could not participate in virtual instruction. Even students with internet access often spent weeks out of school, as many districts that serve low-income communities did not offer online classes for several weeks and some took more than a month to begin distributing laptops to students in need. By the time “distance learning” was launched, teachers in these districts reported that around one third to as many as half of local students did not participate in online classes." -- ibid
"Some authors have noted that the spike in murders during the pandemic was not seen in other wealthy countries, which suggests that it must be connected to something different in the United States. The data from U.S. cities highlight one additional factor that reveals why America’s violence was so unique: Almost all the increases in homicides during 2020 were due to murders committed with guns.
Gun violence has long separated the United States from other nations. Before the pandemic, the likelihood of being killed with a knife or a blunt object was relatively similar for Americans and residents of other countries with high levels of education and wealth. Yet people in the United States were 80 times more likely to be killed with a gun than citizens of countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany.
This helps explain why other wealthy nations did not experience a significant rise in murders in 2020. Because the U.S. spike in homicides was due to gun violence, it is not surprising to see that countries that do not struggle with this problem avoided similar increases in murder—
particularly during a time when being close enough to stab or physically assault someone carried the chance of being exposed to a deadly virus.The risk of gun violence is unlikely to disappear from U.S. cities in the near future. The United States has 120 civilian-owned ... Ibid
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