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In the top 25 states with the largest numbers of Black women working full-time, year-round, the pay compared to white men ranges from about 48 to 68 cents for every white man's dollar. For example, in places like Washington, D.C. and Mississippi, Black women still only make 55 cents to the white man's dollar even though they have the highest ...
As of 2008, over 5.3 million people in the United States were denied the right to vote due to felony disenfranchisement. [18] In the national elections in 2012, the various state felony disenfranchisement laws together blocked an estimated 5.85 million felons from voting, up from 1.2 million in 1976.
Saez and Piketty argue that the "working rich" are now at the top of the income ladder in the United States and their wealth far out-paces the rest of the country. [66] Piketty and Saez plotted the percentage share of total income accrued by the top 1%, top 5%, and the top 10% of wage earners in the United States from 1913-2008.
[141] 80% of total post-doctoral chemical and materials engineering in the United States were foreign-born in 1988. [ 142 ] At the undergraduate level, US-born engineering students constitute upwards of 90–95% of the student population (most foreign-born candidates for engineering graduate schools are trained in their home countries).
A few states allowed free Black men to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women who owned property. [1] Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying White males (about 6% of the population). [2] Georgia removes property requirement for voting. [3]
More: Supreme Court may decide Friday if TikTok will be banned In its launch year, TikTok Shop quickly became the fourth most popular social e-commerce platform in the U.S., with 8.2% of online ...
Civil forfeiture has been used to discourage illegal activities such as cockfighting, drag racing, gambling in basements, poaching of endangered fish, securities fraud, and other illegal activity. [8] A chart showing that payouts are growing, according to the equitable sharing arrangement. Source: United States Justice and Treasury Departments.
Nine states in the United States have banned race-based affirmative action: California (1996), Washington (1998, rescinded 2022 [20]), Florida (1999), Michigan (2006), Nebraska (2008), Arizona (2010), New Hampshire (2012), Oklahoma (2012), and Idaho (2020). Florida's ban was via an executive order and New Hampshire and Idaho's bans were passed ...