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10 Proposals For Eliminating The Racial Wealth Gap
Forbes ^ | 3/27/15 | Laura Shinn

Posted on 03/28/2015 3:38:02 PM PDT by 1010RD

Homeownership

1. Stricter enforcement of housing anti-discrimination laws:

2. Authorizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce mortgage principal and make other loan modifications for struggling homeowners.

3. Leaving the cap on the mortgage interest tax deduction.

Education

1. Investing in universal, high-quality preschool education.

2. Making K-12 education funding more equitable.

3. Recommitting to racially integrated schools, colleges and universities.

4. Establishing an affordable college compact.

Labor Markets

1. Establishing a direct federal job creation program.

2. Raising the minimum wage.

3. Making it easier for workers to form unions.

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To: dfwgator

That’s why they want racially-segregated schools; they hope that the proper lifestyle will just kind of sink in if they see it every day. That way they don’t have to say it out loud, or in print.


41 posted on 03/28/2015 4:13:05 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: 1010RD
What is this, a time-warp back to the Eisenhower administration? Integration in higher education? Guaranteed home mortgages for high-risk clients? Government education subsidies?

The libs still fantasize about this being Selma in 1960. Been there, done that - what we see before us is the result. More of the same isn't going to change anything.

42 posted on 03/28/2015 4:20:01 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BRL

I have a suggestion for education: The 12th grade will be spent learning a work skill. Every student. Then they can work their way through college, if they want to go. If they decide not to attend college, they will already have a skill for earning a living. Wouldn’t that be a step in the right direction?


43 posted on 03/28/2015 4:22:06 PM PDT by abclily
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To: 1010RD
"Homeownership"

Didn't liberal lending standards lead to the real estate bubble and the the financial melt-down? (And Barack Hussein Obama.)

"Education"

The US spends more on education than any other nation on Earth, yet the results are truly pathetic. So let's spend even more money?

"Labor Markets"

In contrast to the other proposals, these are likely to lead to more minority jobs and minority wealth. Unfortunately, the minority jobs and minority wealth will be in China and India.

44 posted on 03/28/2015 4:24:12 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: 1010RD

Is Forbes commie now?


45 posted on 03/28/2015 4:24:36 PM PDT by impimp
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To: BRL

‘Mo money.
“Mo money!!!
“Gimmie mo a DAT MONEY, HONKEY!!!!!!!


46 posted on 03/28/2015 4:25:43 PM PDT by Flintlock (The 'soapbox ' failed us; the 'ballot box' was stolen. We are left with the bullet box.)
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To: abclily

No. Stop funding education with federal dollars would be a step in the right direction. You can try whatever scheme you want locally and if it fails or succeeds we will all hear about it.


47 posted on 03/28/2015 4:26:37 PM PDT by impimp
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To: 1010RD

Good way to make the whole country one big Detroit, Camden, East St. Louis etc.
No gap, everyone is poor.
But, the ubermenchen,the totalitarian nut jobs like Bill Gates, Soros, Buffet, Rockefellers will still be there lording over anyone remaining.


48 posted on 03/28/2015 4:29:59 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats & GOPe delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: 1010RD

Discrimination in education, housing, and employment no longer exist in this country for blacks and haven’t for decades.

I’ve been turned down for two jobs in my 52 years because they were looking for a black candidate. I doubt that any black man my age has ever heard that, except in his own mind.


49 posted on 03/28/2015 4:33:21 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: 1010RD
3 Proposals For Eliminating The Racial Wealth Gap

1.) Marry the girl you impregnated.
2.) Raise your kids.
3.) Don't impregnate any other girls.

50 posted on 03/28/2015 4:41:34 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: 1010RD

1. Change welfare programs to allow women to receive benefits if married or living with the child’s father.
2. Continue welfare benefits for several years for women who marry the baby daddy.
3. Require an IUD or Norplant or proof of Depo Provera injections for every female over the age of 14 in the household as a condition for welfare benefits. If you cannot support the children you have, you cannot be allowed more.
4. Shut the border and start deporting illegal immigrants, who are an undue drain on food banks, school systems and benefits like EITC


51 posted on 03/28/2015 4:45:27 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: abclily

Bring back shop class, auto repair classes, home economics. The kids will get more mileage out of that than the social justice classes now taught as civics in some schools.


52 posted on 03/28/2015 4:46:35 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Even suggesting minors get implanted birth control is sick and disturbing


53 posted on 03/28/2015 4:46:42 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: 1010RD

Here’s my recommendation; “Do nothing.” Let people find their own way.

Happens to be the same opinion as that of the Founding Fathers and expressed in all their documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.


54 posted on 03/28/2015 4:49:01 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: 1010RD

11. Ignore facts.


55 posted on 03/28/2015 4:57:55 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: 1010RD
1. Eliminate the Democrat party.

Granted, this wouldn't actually eliminate the wealth gap, but there'd be no one bitching about it.

56 posted on 03/28/2015 5:11:51 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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To: 1010RD

Get rid of government involvement in education entirely. The schools which still produce delinquents will either be run out of business or be funded by Democrat party operatives.


57 posted on 03/28/2015 5:18:26 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: 1010RD

The author needs to read some Thomas Sowell. No examination of Americans of Asian or Indian descent? How absurd.


58 posted on 03/28/2015 5:21:43 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: 1010RD

if the poor die, the gap will be reduced


59 posted on 03/28/2015 5:25:07 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: 1010RD

Tell me: Do people get paid to write such tripe?


60 posted on 03/28/2015 5:43:35 PM PDT by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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