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Brandeis University’s Institute on Assets and Social Policy released a report that found that the wealth gap between white and African-American families more than quadrupled in the last quarter century. In 1984, the median value of financial assets for white families in America — not including home equity — amounted to $22,000. The median value for African-American families was $2,000.
Hmmm... We wonder why.
According to the Pew Economic Mobility Project, the vast majority of federal deductions and benefits to enhance upward mobility ended up in the hands of the wealthiest Americans. For instance, between 72 percent and 98 percent of deductions for retirement savings, health insurance, home mortgages, self-employed health insurance, and preferential rates on capital gains in 2006 went to the top 20 percent of income-earning Americans.
Oh yeah, that's right. Well, let's keep on truckin' to that plutocracy. What could go wrong, right?
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Didier Drogba
Having lead Chelsea to the FA Cup and Barclay's Premiere League double and named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet, and with the first World Cup to be played in Africa on the way, you'd be well served to get to know this Ivory Coast superstar.
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Network Television Comedy Diversity
If you've checked out the new schedules you'd think it was the 1950s. So much for the Obama Effect.
We want some brothers on the wall, right Buggin' Out?
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