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Racial wealth gap is vast: 2020 Democrats have plans to close it
NBC News ^
| 05/20/2019
| Benjy Sarlin
Posted on 05/20/2019 9:44:11 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
From reparations to "baby bonds," Democratic candidates are proposing big ideas to confront inequality.
If youve been to an event with a Democrat running for president this year, there's a good chance youve heard about it: the racial wealth gap.
Candidates are regularly bringing up the fact that the typical black family has only one-tenth the assets of the typical white family a divide that has grown larger than it was 35 years ago.
Far from a niche concern, candidates have incorporated it into their signature proposals. They've addressed it in speeches not just to black churches in South Carolina, but also to mostly white town hall crowds in Iowa and New Hampshire.
In many ways, it's a defining issue of the 2020 cycle so far, one that brings together multiple trends that are transforming the party: the rising clout of nonwhite voters, a rush to embrace more ambitious policy, and heightened concerns about both racism and inequality under President Donald Trump.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; benjysarlin; classenvy; confiscation; deception; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; greed; marxism; mediawingofthednc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; racial; redistribution; reparations; smearmachine; wealthgap
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To: Responsibility2nd
Leftists don’t consider having minority unemployment at historic lows brought by Trump’s agenda as any possible solution.
Remember THEY aren’t actually interested in equality of any kind.
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posted on
05/20/2019 3:54:08 PM PDT
by
elbook
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Responsibility2nd.
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posted on
05/20/2019 4:31:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Responsibility2nd
They spent 8 years trying to close it and it got worse.
To: Bishop_Malachi
How big is the property and what is the address?
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posted on
05/20/2019 5:07:25 PM PDT
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Democrats have no idea how to create wealth - all they know is how to loot it. Grab your wallet.
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posted on
05/20/2019 5:08:27 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: napscoordinator
Whites already have 27 percent that are born to unwed mothers. Asians best everyone again with 13 percent.In other words, the plan is well under way.
To: Responsibility2nd
I got a plan. Get off your ass, get a job. Quit trying to be a Gangsta and be a Father. Teach your kids the value of hard work and saving instead of bassetball and stealing.
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posted on
05/20/2019 5:54:54 PM PDT
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: Feckless
"I'm headin' out to Illinois, ma."
"Why you be doin' that, boy?"
"Well, ma, they's cuttin' off permanent welfare.
I can only support us so much by food stamp
resales, check forgery, drug dealin', benefit fraud,
muggin', burglary, armed robbery, counterfeitin'
and fencin' stolen merchandise."
"Well, I swan. What you gonna do, boy?"
"I don't know, ma. It's not like I have any skills."
"Well, I swan."
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posted on
05/20/2019 6:00:47 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Well, they are Muggers, what would you expect.
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posted on
05/20/2019 6:01:52 PM PDT
by
The Toll
To: Responsibility2nd
It's called the “Venezuelan Plan”:
We all TAKE UNTIL EVERYTHING IS GONE THEN WE STARVE...
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posted on
05/21/2019 7:24:07 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(FOXNews is working to throw away the most loyal news viewers since fans of Walter Cronkite..)
To: GOPJ
It's called the Venezuelan Plan: We all TAKE UNTIL EVERYTHING IS GONE THEN WE STARVE... I think you meant: "We all TAKE UNTIL EVERYTHING IS GONE THEN YOU STARVE..."
To: Ronaldus Magnus
"We all TAKE UNTIL EVERYTHING IS GONE THEN YOU STARVE..." BINGO - you're right!
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posted on
05/21/2019 8:35:21 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
( Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Churchill)
To: Responsibility2nd
You mean I can get as much $$$ as Oprah has? Or Bill Cosby had?
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posted on
05/21/2019 8:38:59 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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