The extreme social decline of America is in full force. You need only look at many of our once-proud cities to see filth, squalor and disease–in the streets!

Metropolitan areas in Portland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York and Detroit are seemingly beyond help, overrun by thousands of homeless encampments, and wallowing in crime and sexual abuse. And the rate of delinquencies has spiked to the highest in U.S. history.

Even in our nation’s Capitol, a few blocks from the White House, countless homeless can be seen sprawled out on the ground. 99Percent takes a deeper look at the crisis.