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How the Republican Party lost the black vote.
Black America Is Living Through a Great Economic Depression
When President Obama formally unveiled his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday, a lot of the progressive movement focus was on his plan to cut Social Security benefits through a reduced cost-of-living adjustment called the “chained CPI.”
But there was another scandalous policy decision reflected in that budget as well, and this one is a sin of omission: There will not be an all-out effort to address the depression-level unemployment conditions among African Americans. In that is a convergence of misplaced economic priorities and foolhardy politics.
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