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Social Exclusion

Signs of/factors leading to social exclusion:

unemployment, poor skills ==> low incomes
poor housing
high crime
bad health, drug addiction
lack of medical care in deprived areas
family breakdown
high teenage pregnancy rate
homelessness
high number of young people not in education/training or employment and truancy/school exclusion

Solutions: Government tries to establish institutions that

analyse the causes and publish the results in reports.
critically evaluate local governments' work to improve efforts to help socially excluded groups
help to improve cooperation of departments / institutions to solve the multi-faceted problem
initiate programmes to improve health of children, reduce teenage pregnancy and school exclusion and to counsel young people about education and employment
coordinate efforts to encourage private investment in deprived communities.

These children will often ...

Thesis Statement	Supporting Points (more general/abstract)	Examples (specific, images)
become criminals	a	a
turn to violence	b	b
have no positive idols	c	c
have no motivation	d	d
be in danger of becoming depressive	e	e
have no education → find no jobs	f	f
elect extremists	g	g
develop anger and hatred	h	h
make money with prostitution	i	i
face teenage pregnancy/parenthood	j	j

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