Income Gap Between Black and White Families Grows

While income for all families, when adjusted for inflation, has grown in the last 30 years, largely sue to higher levels of women in the workplace, the gap between white and black households has actually widened. The main cause for this is the decrease in wages for black men. Here is a telling statistic:

In 2004, a typical black family had an income that was only 58 percent of a
typical white family's. In 1974, median black incomes were 63 percent those
of whites.

This is a pretty disturbing trend. There are many social and economic factors that contribute to this phenomenon, for example, institutional racism (from employers, financial institutions, law enforcement, etc.), high prevalence of single parent families among blacks, and poor education options.

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House of Representatives Protects Gays in the Workplace

Well, it seems as thought the House has finally realized that it is probably a good thing to have protections for homosexual workers from being harassed by their neanderthalish coworkers. 184 members of the House, including 25 Democrats voted against the bill. Undoubtedly much of the rationalized justification for voting against such a bill is a fear of more lawsuits. I'll take a few more lawsuits to stop some moron from taunting his gay coworker, wouldn't you? The Senate will likely bring up a similar bill sometime soon.

The one unfortunate thing about the bill is the language that had to be removed in order to make it more palpable and more likely to pass. Originally included were protections for transsexuals and the transgendered by protecting against discrimination based on sexual identity.

Here is a list of the yeahs and Hell No!s