- 50 years after the March on Washington, the jobs and wealth gaps persist "the unemployment rate was 5% for whites and 10.9% for blacks. Today, it is 6.6% for whites and 12.6% for blacks...the average white family has gone from having 5 times as much wealth as the average black family to 6 1/2 times" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/19/wonkbook-50-years-after-the-march-on-washington-the-jobs-and-wealth-gaps-persist/?tid=rssfeed 12 comments politics
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