... . According to a study done by the Brookings Institution, in 1929 "0.1% of Americans controlled 34% of all savings, while 80% of Americans had no savings at all." 2 If Americans could not afford to buy what they wanted, they could get anything they wanted with a small down payment and pay for it over time. Advertisements were used to entice Americans to make purchases ... more and more products on installment, however, most American did not have the wages necessary to provide the purchasing power needed to keep the economy growing. For example, "in 1929 Henry Ford reported a personal inc...

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... other groups that were generally underrepresented at the highest levels of business and in other professions. Affirmative action also included financial assistance to members of minorities who could not otherwise afford to attend colleges and universities. Affirmative action has allowed many minority members to achieve new prominence and success. At the end of the 20th century, the policy of affirmative action ... originated in the 1830s and 1840s, when a new generation of education reformers attacked the tradition of disjointed and localized education. Prominent American educators, suc...

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