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CBO Chart, U.S. Holdings of Family Wealth 1989 to 2013. The top 10% of families held 76% of the wealth in 2013, while the bottom 50% of families held 1%. Inequality increased from 1989 to 2013. [1] The inequality of wealth (i.e. inequality in the distribution of assets) has substantially increased in the United States in recent decades. [2]
Today, the average white family has roughly 10 times the amount of wealth as the average black family, and white college graduates have over seven times more wealth than Black college graduates. The wealth of the United States was greatly enhanced by the exploitation of African-American slave labor: some argue it is the bedrock for the U.S ...
Both families say there are both pros and cons to a polyfamory household. "We have four sets of adult hands to work on things," Tyler says. "It's very rare, I think, for people to have that kind ...
In 1789, the at-large popular vote, the winner-take-all method, began with Pennsylvania and Maryland. Massachusetts, Virginia and Delaware used a district plan by popular vote, and state legislatures chose in the five other states participating in the election (Connecticut, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and South Carolina).
Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted signatures Tuesday, hoping to force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they ...
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As of 2022, births to White American mothers remain around 50% of the US total, reflecting a decline of 3% compared to 2021. [28] In the same time period, births to Asian American and Hispanic women increased by 2% and 6%, respectively. [29] The 12 month ending general fertility rate increased from 56.6 to 57.0 in 2022 Q1 compared to 2021 Q4.
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [ 1] It was substantially caused by poor economic and social conditions due to prevalent racial ...