I appreciate what the article discusses, but none of those are surprising. Those are the commonly held reasons for poverty.
For me, the order of the list and some of the details were a surprise. For example I did not appreciate that even "small bouts of violence" can have a "huge impact" on a community.
That’s fair. Many support this impacting the black population of the US. When you live in areas with gang violence, as many of them do in the city, it is hard to focus on education and resource gathering.