To justify the existence of a 'dominant class', Miliband cited the shocking inequality statistics of the 1960s. ... Describing Britain to be the 'most obvious example' of this inequality, seeing as the richest '1% of the population owned 42% of personal wealth, 5% owned 75% and 10% owned 83%', and America's similar statistics that in 1953, 75% of corporate stock was divided between 1% of adults' (Miliband pp25-26), he attacks any belief in 'People's Capitalism' as invalid due to the fact that this 1% is a 'self-perpetuating oliga...

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Gallup's 2010 publication Religious Perceptions in America: With an In-Depth Analysis of U.S. ... The American Muslim population is expanding as "the target of hate crimes and discrimination;" this abuse and obvious encroachment of the civil rights that American citizens are born with requires an addressing. ... In Homeland Insecurity: The Arab-American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11, sociologist Louis Cainkar interprets the cumulative post-9/11 experience of Arabs (Muslim and non-Muslim) living in metropolitan Chicago. Cainkar provides objective and detailed statistics to back...

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According to 2009 statistics, Vietnam's HDI index was 0.725 which ranked them 115th in the world. ... Despite this, Vietnam's quality of life has improved substantially in recent time as in 2010, 94% of the population has access to electricity which was double the 1990 level. ... The distribution of income across an economy can be visually represented through the Lorenz Curve, as seen in the below: An example of the unequal distribution of the benefits of globalisation can be seen through how 80% of the population earn their incomes from primary industries, which as an industry contr...

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Black inmates now constitute roughly 38% of the nearly 2.2 million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails Bureau of justice statistics [BJS], 2007), where they are overrepresented relative to other populations. ... This movement was part of a broader shift toward formalism and rationalization in American criminal law. ...

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