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  1. “Studies have shown that the most important predictor for generational poverty is a single female with children household. ”

    Legion, if you go back and read the article, it shows that Black household net worth fell 2/3 from 1983 to last year. Surely the percentage of black female-run households w children hasn’t increased by 2.3, has it?

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    Studies have shown that the most important predictor for generational poverty is a single female with children household.

    well the government should get involved in the match making game and hook those ladies up with some men! it’s gotta be cheaper to do than dealing with poverty later on down the road! tho if there are no good jobs for those men im not exactly sure what good it will do.

    *rob*

  3. I just read you’re not supposed to buy another thing for Valentine’s Day. This seems to join diamonds, fur, and god knows what else. No chocolate!

    “One online campaign is aimed at raising awareness of the cocoa trade in Ivory Coast, which is helping to prop up the pariah regime of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, while another focuses on ending the alleged use of child labor by growers in West Africa, which produces about two-thirds of the world’s cocoa.”

    Gimme a break…

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