Summary: Incomes for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing income growth for all other groups and underscoring the sharply increased U.S. income disparity between rich and poor. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Osama bin Laden threatened to kill French citizens to avenge France’s support for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a new law banning face-covering Muslim veils.

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Summary: Analysis by the Pew Research Center of data from the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) shows that the wealth gap between whites and blacks and Hispanics has widened dramatically during the recession, with whites on average 20 times wealthier than minorities. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 27, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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