Even the commercial banks are in serious trouble. Insurance companies are failing while 1,300 companies claim bankruptcy per week. Accentuating all of these problems, add a recession, which is affecting not only businesses, but families. After paying for housing, they have nothing left for other necessities. Three million homeless wander the streets.
Poverty drives people to desperation.
By AD 2000, the total number will reach 20 million. More than 3,000 new cases of AIDS are reported in the U.S. every month. An estimated one million Americans are infected. Its death toll in the U.S. has been 83,000. Hospital beds will be filled with AIDS patients while people with regular medical needs stand in line to wait for a bed.