Right now, the middle class is disappearing with there is less people doing well, and more people doing significantly better. America is a republic, a government that is of the people, for the people, and by the people where, we, as citizens of the United States you have the opportunity to prosper regardless of your ancestry or your culture. Government sets the rules by which the market functions. The question is; whom do these rules benefit? Due to income inequality the rich have increased influence on the politicians, making a more the representation of American people as a whole marginally more inaccurate. Many people are not getting college education everywhere in America when, given the chance, college education would raise the chances
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Racism is not only a political or social issue but also a major economic issue, causing generation after generation to be suck in an impoverished area with immense hindrance escaping -because- there is a lack of opportunities for each individual to flourish. Racism is deeply ingrained in the roots of America. It was not until half century ago that the Civil Rights Act was passed. The white-black income gap has persisted since 1967, remaining relatively unchanged. Black men were more than six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in federal and state prisons, and local jails. In 2010, the incarceration rate for white men under local, state and federal jurisdiction was 678 inmates per 100,000 white U.S. residents; for black men, it was 4,347. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, black men were more than six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in 2010. When you go into the projects you see a predominantly black population. This causes stereotyping rooting racism further into American society. This alone unjustly causes people to think that those in the projects deserve what they get, regardless of the situations that they are born into. People born into the projects deserve the to attend college despite their lack of
Racism is not only a political or social issue but also a major economic issue, causing generation after generation to be suck in an impoverished area with immense hindrance escaping -because- there is a lack of opportunities for each individual to flourish. Racism is deeply ingrained in the roots of America. It was not until half century ago that the Civil Rights Act was passed. The white-black income gap has persisted since 1967, remaining relatively unchanged. Black men were more than six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in federal and state prisons, and local jails. In 2010, the incarceration rate for white men under local, state and federal jurisdiction was 678 inmates per 100,000 white U.S. residents; for black men, it was 4,347. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, black men were more than six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in 2010. When you go into the projects you see a predominantly black population. This causes stereotyping rooting racism further into American society. This alone unjustly causes people to think that those in the projects deserve what they get, regardless of the situations that they are born into. People born into the projects deserve the to attend college despite their lack of