From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 12:50:08 MST
> >From todays Investors Business Daily:
> Poverty for blacks lowest since '59
>
> The poverty rate for blacks in '00 as measured by the Census
> Bureau, was the lowest since the agency began tracking such data.
> About 7.9 mil were considered poor in '00 vs 8.4 mil in '99. Also
> the '00 median income of black households was $30,439 up 5.5% from
> '99.
>
> "A toast to Capitalism and the American way" <raises glass>
I don't know if this will rain on your parade or not, but did
that study count blacks in jail? Unfortunately, the "American
way" is decidedly anti-capitalist in the way it treats
entrepreneurs who provide products and services it doesn't
approve of, like sex and drugs, and the government is rather
selective in enforcing this anti-capitalist bias.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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