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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
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Radio Personality
San Francisco County
California
Julianne Marie Malveaux
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I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.
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I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.
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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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Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
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There's no great, white bigot there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.
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People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.
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We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.
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Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.
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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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I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.
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I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.
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African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
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[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.
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I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.
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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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[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.
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