"T think the debt issue is off the delegates that Barack Obama. a7 fact, in this context where~ table, She does not need to cannot win white working working class votefs are the* negotiate for Obama to pay her class votes. " most devastated segment of} campaign debt, since Bill has ee ee the electorate, they are. -._ Way more than enough money Ia recent interview with = unlikely to go as a group todo that. But, Democratic USA Today Clinton said that John McCain, but are insteadparty leaders are hoping that she had ot broader base likely to split. Some will2 will get out of the race and that, oSenator Obama Ts indeed go to McCain, someoon under conditions that Support among working, hard yi) hold their nose and. favor the party winning in the Working Americans, white support Obama and others "fall-campaign, which means gee will stay home. Those who9 - that she does not beat up the don Tt support Obama,he Dos Won opresumptive nominee so badly (North Carolina pam however, should be made upColumnist = vo that he limps into the election, 1 supporting me. ? This, by the huge numbers of newi reference to ohard-working voters that his campaign is .I remember that question. Yet, many people think thatthe whit People, ? was created by attracting. They cite voter oWhat does Jesse want? ? odamaged goods ? scenario, conservatives in the 1980s as registration results of:asked of Rev, Jesse which causes Obama to loose a euphemism for whites, a 200,000 new Democrats inJackson, Sr. by the media. the fall, is what she wants term which conveyed that Pennsylvania, 165,000 inwhen he had been defeated Decause it would allow Hillary they were not lazy, welfare North Carolina, and 150 ,000 badly in the New York ~ © campaign again for cheating Blacks: This was in Indiana,; Primary in his 1984 president in 2012. another rare a er by the oeFae ee 1,,... candidate, which rai " Barae 2's dazzling 6 St hoatiatt for ? Sica ie Pert vate in eyebrows because of the performance shows that in Ty this strategy. That is, if she attempt to further blacken order to win you have toene Qoiese ae Paty candidat in Cpa g, know something about theclare an election that by every we SeiGist the aornination WWas Out "measure is poised to take the Frustrated at losing, all the ie rl fos :Gi nand, but it wasn't about Write House and expand its Clinioa campaign has left is straction to the electorateee nattgel meaning of oud in te Hoan ated Senste, he biglynoat dhe and ha mi viechene' rice dawinning, we had an it will not endear the new party surrogates are making that the working class anxietyOpportunity to further: = snaders to her 2012 candidacy. Democratic party needs blue-empower our community, fh | calles whites, the ab-calledas I have previously Also, it will most certainly not oReagan Democrats, ? :suggested here, nae ycdgrelaa arte Furthermore they are touting Bh gid} su er then and he will be hi ba )vom il a a aie party leader as a result pega rasa she Dr Ron Mortal ale cuentsitistics, wich Soyer may rae cpealy Wie ees will Schae Bwee othehave igi og far SUbport her if she causes their Gallup pol er salem- votes, ae 160 pledged roa leg ihe an reg ie cates ve lage sd Pls a he ay gd Super delegates, which srsiner dren defered within 3 ofgives him the overall ey percentage point+ Iead. She is I think her sights are still tied. Winning the 2004 election,Ftime to get the to winning in 2008, A hint of The study goes on to say that ;mpunder which this may be the tht she is Obamawwillwinthe same ===| et, i8, Under de Rett sence wi appeal to Red state voters ai o 2 i i aura in.will she °° yam na may be t o | Minority Voce May 9- May 16, 2008 pg2Marin Woh in,homes on the banks of the:' Potomac.~ But many long-time local- tesidents use Washington Tsother name-the District of _Columbia. While the District's__ streets course through middle-_ Tow houses fronting well-kept._ lawns, its overall | poverty ratehas reached. its highest level i in| neatly ten years, Sadly, theet Washington and the District of_ over the past two decades.~ Acc cord g to the D.C. Fiscal:athde. Policy Institute Ts October 2007Teport, oD.C. TsTwoEconomies: Many Residents TAre Falling Behind Despite theCity T S$ Revitalization, ? the__ wagé gap between D.C. Ts _pe highest earners (the top 20percent) and the lowest (the -bottom 20 percent) is ie, widest it has been since 1979,And the number of © =inerentct District resident~ has grown, According to the"income communities with neatsocioeconomic divide between :_ Columbia has been wideningShared by a considerableONS -ston T Two Eeonomies-A Growing ? segment of the District's $._ Institute report, nearly 20°. Black population and the leastae: percent, or one in five District educated residents who haveresidents, have incomes remained sunken at the_ below the poverty level. Since: bottom.- the late 1990s, about 27,000. :D.C. residents have fallen According tothe Instituteinto poverty. _. Teport, the median income forme White households inDespite the recent economic Washington grew from_ downturn, Washington Ts. .. . $55,000 in 1980 to $92,000 instrong economy has been ©- "- "-2006 (in 2006 dollars). Theanchored by large employers. incomes of the least paidsuch as the federal ? . _ workers (when adjusted for2 government, the District inflation) have stayed" government, universities, _ practically unchanged overhospitals and corporate . __. the last three decades, Theoffices. The city also has "incomes of Black households- experienced Ta boom in ~ from 1980 to 2006 have.~ commercial and residential _ Temained essentially flat atconstruction. Long seen as $34,500. In addition, | orecession proof, ? the: employment for Black adultsWashington economy is _has declined steadily since thestrong. The economy has _ ate 1980s, from 62 percent in_ produced jobs for skilled and _ 1988 to 51 percent in 2006.well-educated workers who Only two other U.S. cities,have seen their incomes soar, _ Tampa and Atlanta, haveWhile a large segment of the worse income disparities._ Washington population is -One Ts level of education caneconomically successful, that be critical for economic __prosperity has not been Success, Just 51 percent ofD.C. residents with only a| What Does Hillary Want? volunteer. Jealous comes to the ae NAACP as a scholar, having P.- degree from Oxford_ University, in Oxford,Income Gaphigh school diploma had jobs; site ais 0, Thethis is the lowest level in first thing that must be donenearly 30 years. _. is to improve the quality ofeducation at all levels-One-third of the District Ts . preschool, elementary, "children are poor, compared secondary and |with 16 percent of adults ages postsecondary-as well as18 t0.64, In 2004, provide job training| approximately 22,000 District - programs that will « equip -families with children had District residents with theincomes below 200 percent of skills that will enable them_ the federal poverty line, or less to participate and succeed inthan about $31 000 fora the city Ts economy. _family of three. Seventy-four Residents who are stuck inpercent of these were working low-wage jobs and striving |families with one or more to stay off public assistanceparents who. worked at least _rolls need T support. We must "part of the year. About 12 000 provide that support byof these low-income District establishing decent Tinefamilies with children-more wages, child carethan half-included adults who assistance, health careworked miore than half of the coverage and affordableyear. In many cases, the housing. eSparents worked full-time andyear-round, Overall, some ; Meta iin47,000 District residents, . roshive! vba peed ieincluding 27,000 children, Council whose 0lived in families that were Behind} wision, eepoor or near-poor despite Head Start, a Pair Start, a Safeworking most of the year. Start and a Moral Start in life| . and successful passage toThis problem must be | pry ta ab help ofe communities.mung brotherby Wilbert A. TatumPublisher Emeritus andChairman of the Board . .A young Black man waa tename of Benjamin Todd |_ Jealous has been selected bythe board of the NationalAssociation for the " J ;_ Advancement of Colored mere Tine vengaPeople to be its president and " the 200 Black newspaperschief executive officer. Jealous in America.was sclocted recently after In each of Ben Ts positions "long search. As peculiar as it, all at the level of executivemay seem, they could have " «ditector or piesident "hefound Ben in their own " has brou a8ght to the esbackyard, for he has been _ organizations his formidableactive with the NAACP since ichildhood. He is now 35 ear Journalistic skills,~ of age mae . Community organizingbackground and familiarityInhis teenage years ses was a With all of the civil rightscommunity organizer "among organizations i in the Uniteother things "with the .. _, Stal ngNAACP, and he very oftenfound himself returning to theorganization as a consultant,speaker, member and -earned a master of scienceEngland, and a bachelor of artsdegree from ColumbiaUniversity in New York City,He, incidentally, is a Rhodesscholar. |He comes directly to theNAACP following his position _°O?"??"??"?Nity educator of thewing his position NAACP legal defense fundas president of the Rosenberg :Foundation, a Private, sky nor ens benAbolish the Death Penalty,managing editor of theJackson Advocate, andinstitution that anppons one a Bh exheentyrights a Prior to that, ote NAACP ad N ane io a