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Still, these trends are troubling. At the end of the twentieth century, only ten percent of two-parent African-American households lived below the poverty rate, but an absolute majority of single-parent African-American households did. Married couples share certain qualities that make them more likely to succeed. Indeed, the breakdown of the family is one reason for the recent lag in economic progress among African Americans. And the fewer African Americans who are working, the less likely that greater numbers of them will rise out of poverty...
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Stanford Medical School Professor Robert K. Jackler, who recently lectured at the event, said he hopes to increase public awareness about how the tobacco industry deceived the public during the first half of the twentieth century...
...hundreds of thousands fell victim to displacement and starvation in the following weeks and months. The international community’s failure to act, in spite of the fact that the whole world was aware of the atrocities taking place, is one of the most shameful facts of the twentieth century. Yet, we have once again witnessed failure of leadership to act in regards to genocide in Darfur—with the exception of Senator Obama, who has been on the forefront not just with his words but with his actions. He has co-sponsored six bills to help fight...
...analysis that often comes off as pedantic, or, worse, irrelevant. Seemingly eager to show she did her homework, much of the book is occupied by painful, analytic esoterica that sacrifices the reader’s interest for mere chronological adherence. While the cultural shifts that occurred in the mid-twentieth century are undoubtedly important to understanding American’s intellectual landscape, Jacoby’s analysis slogs through these changes in a way so slow and torturous that the actual crux of the history is lost. Additionally, Jacoby’s argument is surprisingly parochial. While confronting complex problems...