Freakonomics
What did the crack epidemic do ? To which group ?
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The advent of crack hit black neighborhoods much harder than white neighborhoods, causing addiction that led to infant mortality, imprisonment, violence, and a widened education gap between black and white schoolchildren. This was when everyone expected the youth crime rate to skyrocket, but instead it fell—this paves the way for the in-depth discussion on the abortion topic proposed in the introduction that will happen in the next chapter.