They have greater social problems.
Nearly one-third of our children are either overweight or obese, which is telling evidence of greater social problems.
Illiteracy leads to lower skills, greater social problems, higher crime rates, and a country less able to prosper in the global jobs market.
Bluntly put, more of the poor are going to be "exported" to territories even further from those they call home - where their friends and extended families might live, where they might have work and where their children go to school - to far-off neighbourhoods, that often will have lesser social provision and greater social problems.
The crisis brought with it greater social problems than we have seen in decades: increased homelessness, joblessness, widespread hunger, violence and that scary "R" word: "revolution".
According to Seltzer, one view they shared was that "the greatest social problem of our time was over-population.
Of late, an appealing fiction that aids and abets our amnesia about race in America has taken hold among some progressives: on this view, our greatest social problem today is inequality of wealth and income, and so admissions to colleges and universities should take this as their focus.
The pilot, in Newham, east London, will test the work of economist, government adviser and "guru of happiness" Lord [Richard] Layard, who claims that mental illness has taken over from unemployment as today's greatest social problem, costing £17bn a year.
For me, it is indicative of a great social problem.
It is small, personal and utterly unconcerned with great social problems.
