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2 days ago · The United States has the highest level of income inequality in the Western world, according to a 2018 study by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. The United States has forty million people living in poverty, and more than half of these people live in "extreme" or "absolute" poverty.
1 day ago · The practice of redlining actively helped to create what is now known as the Racial Wealth Gap seen in the United States. Black families in America earned just $57.30 for every $100 in income earned by white families, according to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey.
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5 days ago · Adam Volle. Occupy Wall Street (OWS), extended protest against economic inequality and the corruption of corporate law that occurred from September 17 to November 15, 2011, centred in New York City. The demonstration marked the beginning of a new focus on wealth disparity in American politics. The Occupy Wall.
4 days ago · Some Politicians Say Yes. In a world where the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest widens at an alarming rate, the idea of implementing a wealth cap sparks a fiery debate among policymakers ...
5 days ago · Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine (actually Jump Jim Crow) performed beginning in 1828 by its author, Thomas Dartmouth (“Daddy”) Rice ...
3 days ago · The 1954 decision found that the historical evidence bearing on the issue was inconclusive. Brown v. Board of Education, case in which, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously (9–0) that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It was one of the most important cases in the Court’s history, and it helped ...
