While the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has not seen a big jump in harassment claims, the amount paid by employers to plaintiffs as a result of those claims reached an all - time high of $ 54.6 million in 2000. (inc.com)
For even though the results of this claiming often accrue to the advantage of better - off blacks, and in no way constitute a solution to the problems of the poor, the desperate plight of the poorest makes it unthinkable that whites could ever be «let off the hook» by relinquishing the historically based claims» that is, by a broad acceptance within the black community of the notion that individual blacks bear personal responsibility for their fate. (firstthings.com)
Instead the seers have grown wealthy as a result of their claims — and so has their town, which has boomed as a result of the «Madonna gold rush». (religion.blogs.cnn.com)