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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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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
Economist
Journalist
Radio Personality
San Francisco County
California
Julianne Marie Malveaux
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African-American people adore President Obama.
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Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
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I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
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Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.
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[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.
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If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.
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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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Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.
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I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.
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Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.
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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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Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.
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If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.
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Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
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[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.
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