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A boring and obvious way to get more rural votes

Describe generic progressive economics as closing urban/rural disparities

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Jan 31, 2023
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Black and Latin Americans are significantly poorer, on average, than white Anglo Americans.

This is true pretty much any way you look at it. Median incomes are lower, poverty rates are higher. If you look at lists of the very richest people in the country, you see very few Black or Hispanic billionaires, and the few you do see are nowhere near the top of…

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