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jay wrote:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7663JD20110707
The report released on Thursday showed that over the past 15 years,
seven states have doubled their rate of obesity and 10 states have
doubled their rate of diabetes.
Since 1995, obesity rates have risen fastest in Oklahoma, Alabama and
Tennessee, while Colorado, Connecticut and Washington, D.C., had the
slowest increases.
Adults from racial and ethnic minority groups, as well as those with
less education and lower incomes, continue to have the highest overall
obesity rates.
I just wanted to point out to the potential big-ots out there that in
2005 12.5% of Hispanics, and 25.8% of black People were poor.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2...gains-reversed
-great-recession
Economists say the Great Recession lasted from 2007 to 2009. In 2004,
the median net worth of white households was $134,280, compared with
$13,450 for black households, according to an analysis of Federal
Reserve data by the Economic Policy Institute. By 2009, the median net
worth for white households had fallen 24 percent to $97,860; the median
black net worth had fallen 83 percent to $2,170, according to the EPI.
Algernon Austin, director of the EPI's Program on Race, Ethnicity and
the Economy, described the current wealth gap this way: "In 2009, for
every dollar of wealth the average white household had, black households
only had two cents."
Since the end of the recession, the overall unemployment rate has fallen
from 9.4 to 9.1 percent, while the black unemployment rate has risen
from 14.7 to 16.2 percent, according to the Department of Labor.
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Racism in America not only affects people financially, but it also makes
them sick, because the most calories for the buck comes from nutrient
poor "processed foods". The most reliable predictor of obesity in
America today is a personšs wealth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html
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- Billy
Mad dog Republicans to the right. Democratic spider webs to the left. True conservatives, and liberals not to be found anywhere in the phantasmagoria
of the American political landscape.
America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash.
It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the
greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks
and the portfolios of the uber-rich.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/.../michael-moore
/michael-moore-says-400-americans-have-more-wealth-/