We must mount a concerted national effort to dismantle the prison pipeline by attacking it at its root causes--poverty and racial disparities, lack of access to health care, poor early childhood and public education, a broken child welfare system, and inequitable administration of juvenile justice.
Divorce is such an emotionally devastating, financially ruinous event that it might be wise to take a close look at its root cause -- marriage.
They made dozens of recommendations to the government to tackle hunger at its root cause, but two years on, many of them have fallen on deaf ears.
What do you suppose an hour of his labour was worth Clive McCarthy San FranciscoThe following letter appears online onlyEmerging difficultiesSIR - Your article on the risks to emerging markets of further financial contagion described the symptoms of the ongoing "sudden stop" in international capital flows, but does not get at its root cause (Economics focus, February 28th).
"We need to attack the challenge at its root cause, lack of knowledge," said John Olson, chief executive at Olson, rather than "responding with the usual bag of tricks like 'Let's have an awards show.' " Although the young are familiar with advertising, "they just don't know about it" as an occupation, Mr. Olson said, and "they don't think people get paid to do this kind of work".
He added: "Considerable work is already under way to develop our wider violence reduction strategy, led by an experienced prison governor, to address violence at its root cause".
A short course of medication can be useful if takes the edge off your worry, so you can work at resolving its root causes.
Breaking up the large banks would be striking at symptoms rather than at root causes, namely the ongoing growth of political power and the reliance of that power upon an ongoing inflow of capital.
