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About 75 percent of young women believe the U.S. needs to do more to bring about equality in the workplace, a new study finds, despite a narrowing pay gap and steady employment gains for women at higher levels of business and government. (Photo: Thinkstock)
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Pay gains for young women; inequality still seen

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This photo taken Nov. 21, 2013 shows James Lott outside the Wal-Mart store where he works as a pharmacist in Bonney Lake, Wash. Lott, who lives in Renton, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, adds significantly to his six-figure job salary by day-trading stocks. It's not just the wealthiest 1 percent: Fully 20 percent of U.S. adults become rich for parts of their lives, wielding outsized influence on America's economy and politics. And this little-known group may pose the biggest barrier to reducing the nation's income inequality. While the growing numbers of the U.S. poor have been well documented, survey data provided exclusively to The Associated Press detail the flip side of the record income gap: the rise of the
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Rising riches: 1 in 5 in US reaches affluence

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Homelessness drops for third straight year in US
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Homelessness drops for third straight year in US

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Jeremy Bills works at his job as associate director at the Nashville Education Community and Arts Television office on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. Bills, originally from Tampa, Fla., received his master's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and has stayed in his college town while trying unsuccessfully to find a job in his field of study. After initial signs of recovery, U.S. mobility for young adults has fallen to the lowest level in more than 50 years. Cash-strapped 20-somethings are shunning home-buying and refraining from major moves in the weak job market. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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US mobility for young adults falls to 50-year low

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Nation’s poor at 49.7M, higher than official rate
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Nation’s poor at 49.7M, higher than official rate

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FILE - In this June 13, 2013 file photo, US Border Patrol agent Jerry Conlin looks out over Tijuana, Mexico, behind, along the old border wall along the US - Mexico border, where it ends at the base of a hill in San Diego. After dropping during the recession, the number of immigrants crossing the border illegally into the U.S. appears to be on the rise again, according to a report released Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 by Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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New signs of rising illegal immigration into US

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Census: No sign of economic rebound for many in US
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Census: No sign of economic rebound for many in US

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Poverty stuck at 15 percent — record 46.5 million
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Poverty stuck at 15 percent — record 46.5 million

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Employment gap between rich, poor widest on record
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Employment gap between rich, poor widest on record

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Half of US says racial equality not yet a reality
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Half of US says racial equality not yet a reality

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