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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd now for today's offering from John Fugelsang
African American voters in Alabama did more to help white working Americans last night than DT has done all year.
John Fugelsang.
democrank
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(38,427 posts)workinclasszero
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(26,622 posts)denvine
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(231 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)Siwsan
(26,263 posts)Unless, of course, the cognac is for 'dessert'.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)Siwsan
(26,263 posts)I actually have the dregs of a bottle of Old Overhold in my cabinet.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)I just like rye better than bourbon myself. Too sweet.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)I can't imagine how any working person could fall for Trump's bullshit.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,431 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Orrex
(63,213 posts)I really never liked his stand-up, and I found him close to intolerable on all of those VH-1 shows he used to haunt, but I've done a complete 180° on him, delighting in each and every tweet he tweets.
Keep up the great work, John!
marble falls
(57,097 posts)Black Women Now the Most Educated Group in US
Angela Bronner Helm
6/05/16 1:48pmFiled to: News
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African-American women at Morgan State University in Baltimore during a graduation ceremony in 1960
Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images
Good news, bad news.
A new report confirms that black women are now the most educated group in the United States. But we still have a long way to go for pay equity.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, between 2009 and 2010, black women earned 68 percent of all associate degrees awarded to black students, as well as 66 percent of bachelors degrees, 71 percent of masters degrees and 65 percent of all doctorates awarded to black students.
The report also says that the percentage of U.S. college students who are black increased from 10 to 15 percent from 1976 to 2012, while the percentage of white students among all U.S. college students fell from 84 to 60 percent.
By both race and gender, a higher percentage of black women (9.7 percent) are enrolled in college than any other group, topping Asian women (8.7 percent), white women (7.1 percent) and white men (6.1 percent).
Unfortunately, while black women may be the most highly educated, a recent study found that black women make up just 8 percent of private sector jobs and less than 2 percent of leadership roles.
And as of 2013, black women earned just 64 cents to the white mans dollar, while white women earned 78 cents, black men 75 cents, Hispanic men 67 cents and Hispanic women 54 cents.
The National Committee on Pay Equitys research predicts that white women wont receive equal pay until 2059and they are ahead of black and Hispanic men and women. So where does that leave us?
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)hard work that resulted in a record "get out the vote" effort winning the day for Doug Jones. Thank you to all black women who work tirelessly for voter rights in every state.
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marble falls
(57,097 posts)to group that ignorantly mostly voted for Moore. We even, me too, look like Moore. I feel in debt to black women voters.
John Fuglesang is the bomb and I echo his words and plaudits -
"African American voters in Alabama did more to help white working Americans last night than DT (or the republican party) has done all year."
Wounded Bear
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(81,281 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 13, 2017, 05:56 PM - Edit history (1)
raven mad
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(6,819 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)And true!