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I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
Julianne Malveaux
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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
Economist
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San Francisco County
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Julianne Marie Malveaux
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Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.
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If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
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If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read Black and Brown, would be better off with recovery jobs.
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Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.
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I am not afraid of anything. I am voting for Hillary Clinton because I am excited and enthusiastic.
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I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.
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References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.
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[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.
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One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
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While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.
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As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.
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Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.
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[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.
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Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time, it is important to note that, except for his first two years, which were a missed opportunity, President [Barack] Obama faced rabid opposition from the Republicans.
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We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.
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I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
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The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.
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Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.
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I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.
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The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.
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