Pubdate: Mon, 16 Sep 2002
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
Copyright: 2002 Hearst Communications Inc.
Contact:  http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/388
Author: Tom O'Connell

DRUG WAR HURTS

Editor -- Your trenchant analysis of school testing scores sees through 
hype and confusion to point out what it really comes down to: poverty.

It's not difficult to see the important role played by our drug war in the 
transfer of wealth from the lowest rungs of the economic ladder to the very 
highest. Increased policing, prison construction and a greatly expanded 
prison population have all siphoned money away from education and health 
care while at the same time serving to keep the targeted populations mired 
in poverty.

TOM O'CONNELL
San Mateo
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