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[novapsyche]

Report details black-white wealth inequality

Smarting sheriff tracks down critic

Coburn Fighting to Keep Medical Practice (you know Coburn, the guy who gave women nonconsentual sterilizations)

Comments

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I just read an interesting tidbit in Jet. Black women are making more per year than either white or Hispanic women.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I saw that copy of Jet in your house. The fact that it's there really disturbs me.

I don't know what to make of that statistical finding (and that's college-educated black women, not black women in general). I have a feeling it's based on direct comparisons of percentages (X% of college-educated black women vs. Y% of college-educated white women), when in fact there are far fewer black women in the United States as a whole and so such a comparison would tell only part of the story. Yes, I'm hedging a guess here, but I'd much rather look at the study as a whole and figure out how the numbers came out.

Still, what this article points out (and something I learned in some detail in my sociology courses) is the difference between wages, which is what the article you're citing talks about, and wealth. They are not the same.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

re: wealth vs. wages

Yeah, you can be making a lot of money but not know how to invest it wisely.

[daiwainscott.livejournal.com]

Coburn, represents everything that I despise in Oklahoma.