disparity

Superrich Americans Driving Income Inequality

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 09/23/2010 - 6:00am

Forbes magazine's new list of the richest Americans makes clear that a huge amount of wealth is controlled by a small number of people. Slate's Timothy Noah says the wealthiest of the wealthy are causing the growing disparity.

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Charges Of 'Re-Segregation' At N.C. High School

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:10pm

A high school in Wayne County, N.C., has a student population that is poor and 99 percent black. That's not the case at other public high schools in the same county.

The disparity has prompted a civil rights inquiry — and complaints about what one leader calls "re-segregation."

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