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As of 2011 34.5% of Baltimore residents live below the poverty line. The unemployment rate in zip code 21217, where the riots broke out on Monday, was 19.1% in 2011.

Less than 60% of Baltimore’s high school students graduate, the worst mark in the state — by far.

Taken together, these disparities illustrate what poverty’s like in big-city America. And the effects are brutally obvious in Baltimore’s health care statistics.

Black infants in Baltimore are almost nine times more likely to die before age 1 than White infants. AIDS cases are nearly five times more common in the African-American community.

“Only six miles separate the Baltimore neighborhoods of Roland Park and Hollins Market,” interim Hopkins provost Jonathan Bagger said last year. “[B]ut there is a 20-year difference in the average life expectancy.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/04/28/why-baltimore-burned/

And Jesus Entered Into The Temple Of God, And Did Cast Forth All Those Buying And Selling In The Temple. The Tables Of The Money-Changers He Overturned, Along With The Seats Of Those Selling Doves. And He Said To Them, `It Has Been Written, My House Will Be Called A House Of Prayer, But You Did Make It A Den Of Thieves.'