In the Constitution, the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, states “We hold the truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Base on the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), affirmative action are policies in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society. Affirmative action often focuses on employment and education. Affirmative action help improve American societies by eliminating discrimination. Discrimination is the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of
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Base on the Institution for Women’s Policy Research, in 2015, female fulltime workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender gap of 21 percent. Latinas earn 56 cents for every dollar a white man earns. African Americans earn 75 percent of what white men earn. In 2002, the median household income for white was 44 thousand, compared with 29 thousand for the blacks. Base on Brandon Gaille, white are offered 52 percent more often than Latino applicants when skill sets, experience and education are all similar. Young white men receive 45 percent more jobs offer than their African American counterparts. 63 percent of white thinks African Americans have equal opportunities, where as 80 percent of African Americans feel they don’t. The gender wage gap for women and men are completely unfair for women. In institutions and corporations of where women and men work, female workers work just as hard or even harder than male workers, but still earn less money than males. When you are applying for a job and you have the same skill sets, experience and education compared to other applicants, but is denied because of you race, is that fair? When you have the same working position as your other co-workers, but get a lower income than them because of your race or gender, is that …show more content…
Based on statistics of the American society, America isn’t completely fair. Minorities are treated unfairly compared to white people. Minorities such as African American are deny the opportunities to shine and accomplish things. Like what President Lyndon Johnson once said “You do not take a person, who for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say ‘you are free to compete with all the others,’ and still believe that you have been completely fair.” Minorities are denied job and educational opportunities. Based on solidarity.com, the official unemployment is nearly 50% higher for African Americans than for whites. On the front page story in The New York Times entitled, “In Job Hunt, even a college degree can’t close racist gap (December 1, 2009),” notes that many Blacks are altering their names to sound more “white” to get interviews. A study published in the American Economic Review reports that applicants with Black-sounding names received 50% fewer callbacks than those with white-sounding names. The lack of job results the lack of food, the Department of Agriculture calculates that there are about 49 million Americans: 26% of Black households, 14.6% of white, without enough food, eat one meal per
Base on the Institution for Women’s Policy Research, in 2015, female fulltime workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender gap of 21 percent. Latinas earn 56 cents for every dollar a white man earns. African Americans earn 75 percent of what white men earn. In 2002, the median household income for white was 44 thousand, compared with 29 thousand for the blacks. Base on Brandon Gaille, white are offered 52 percent more often than Latino applicants when skill sets, experience and education are all similar. Young white men receive 45 percent more jobs offer than their African American counterparts. 63 percent of white thinks African Americans have equal opportunities, where as 80 percent of African Americans feel they don’t. The gender wage gap for women and men are completely unfair for women. In institutions and corporations of where women and men work, female workers work just as hard or even harder than male workers, but still earn less money than males. When you are applying for a job and you have the same skill sets, experience and education compared to other applicants, but is denied because of you race, is that fair? When you have the same working position as your other co-workers, but get a lower income than them because of your race or gender, is that …show more content…
Based on statistics of the American society, America isn’t completely fair. Minorities are treated unfairly compared to white people. Minorities such as African American are deny the opportunities to shine and accomplish things. Like what President Lyndon Johnson once said “You do not take a person, who for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say ‘you are free to compete with all the others,’ and still believe that you have been completely fair.” Minorities are denied job and educational opportunities. Based on solidarity.com, the official unemployment is nearly 50% higher for African Americans than for whites. On the front page story in The New York Times entitled, “In Job Hunt, even a college degree can’t close racist gap (December 1, 2009),” notes that many Blacks are altering their names to sound more “white” to get interviews. A study published in the American Economic Review reports that applicants with Black-sounding names received 50% fewer callbacks than those with white-sounding names. The lack of job results the lack of food, the Department of Agriculture calculates that there are about 49 million Americans: 26% of Black households, 14.6% of white, without enough food, eat one meal per